Celebrated Jumping Frog Summary

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In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County', old Simon Wheeler recounts the storyteller the entertaining story of Jim Smiley and his prepared frog. An infamous speculator, Jim was cheated one day when a more bizarre bolstered his frog buckshot and influenced Jim to lose a wager. A companion has requested that the storyteller discover Simon Wheeler and to get some information about the Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon Wheeler doesn't recollect a Reverend Smiley, however he starts to enlighten a story concerning Jim Smiley, a man who wanted to make wagers. We learn from the beginning of the story that Smiley loves to bet, yet more critical maybe, he gets a kick out of the chance to wager on creatures that don't appear like they have

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