The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain Stories

In this humorous tall tale by Mark Twain, the narrator gets cornered by old Simon Wheeler, who launches into a long-winded story about a man named Jim Smiley, notorious for his obsessive betting habit in an old mining camp. Smiley would bet on anything, from horse races to cat fights, even training a frog named Dan'l Webster to be an exceptional jumper. The main anecdote describes how Smiley bet a stranger that Dan'l could outjump any frog, but while Smiley was finding a competitor frog for the stranger, the stranger sneakily filled Dan'l Webster full of heavy quail shot, causing the prized frog to be too weighed down to jump and allowing the stranger to win the bet through trickery.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.