Grade 11 · Story
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller—a stranger in the camp, he was—come across him with his box, and says: "What might it be that you've got in the box?"
From "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (1867) · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1867)
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