A sentence in one version of this story was described by its author as "grammar gone to seed"; that version of this story was "clawed back into a civilized language once more" from a French translation found by its author.
A sentence in one version of this story was described by its author as "grammar gone to seed"; that version of this story was "clawed back into a civilized language once more" from a French translation found by its author. Its frame narrative is set in a tavern in Angels Camp and involves the narrator's search for a man named Leonidas. The central character of this story once speculated on the fate of Parson Walker's wife and owns a bulldog named (*) Andrew Jackson. Simon Wheeler relates this story's central anecdote, in which a stranger uses some quail shot to win a forty-dollar bet with Jim Smiley, the proud owner of Dan'l Webster. For 10 points, identify this story about a talented amphibian, a work of Mark Twain.
A sentence in one version of this story was described by its author as "grammar gone to seed"; that version of this story was "clawed back into a civilized language once more" from a French translation found by its author.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" [or "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; or "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog"; or "The Jumping Frog"]