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The Jumping FrogNow that brings me by a natural and easy transition to Simon Wheeler of California a introduce he was, and in a sm every last(predicate) way a philosopher. Simon Wheelers church doctrine was that pretty nearly everything that happens to a man can be cancelled to moral account every incident in his life, almost, can be made to assist him, to project him forward morally, if he knows how to make practise of the lesson which that episode teaches, and he used -- well, he was a good act up of a talker. He was an inordinate talker in fact, he wore start three sets of false teeth, and I told about a friend of his angiotensin-converting enzyme day -- a man that he had known there formerly, and who he had a great admiration for, of one Jim Smiley, and he said it was expense a mans while to know Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley was a man of gift he was a man of parts he was a man of discipline he was -- well, he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up that you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldnt he would change sides. As soon as he got a bet he was satisfied. He prepared himself with all sorts of things -- tomcats, rat terriers and all such things, and one day he ketched a frog said he calculated to educate him. And he took him seat and never done nothing but set in his thorn yard and occupy that frog how to jump. Yes, sir, and he did learn him to -- he did learn him to. When it came to jumping on a unused level there wasnt no frog that could touch him at all. Come to jump on the dead level, why, he could lay over any frog in the profession, and Smiley skint all the camps around there betting on that frog. Bye and whirl he got a misfortune. He used to keep his frog in a little lattice boxful. The frogs name was Daniel Webster, and he would bring that box down town and lay for a bet. And one day a fellow came along, a stranger in the camp he was, he says, What might it be that yo u have got in the box? Well, Smiley says, It aint anything particular, its only good a frog, Well, he says, What is he good for?