Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."