1. "I have seen Smiley since, and I have not found yet exactly what it is that he gets out of the parrot, but this is what he called its sitting up with him for a while after he had gone to bed. It would moan and sob and say, 'Poor old Paddy, poor old Paddy,' and 'Paddy, my darling, wake and speak to me,' and other things like that."
2. "His frogs would do the most astonishing things; for instance, he had some that he called Simon and Garfunkel the Wonder Frogs, and they could jump higher than any frog in Calaveras County."
3. "And they’d give the feller his money back, and then he would leave. Another feller—could outjump any frog in Calaveras County—begger kept fillin’ his frog with shot, too... but when things got interesting, he sprang a leak, and there was a little blacksmith shop on the next lot, and the frog hopped in there and died on the floor."
“THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROGS OF CALAVERAS COUNTY”
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