The Jumping Frog

Description:

Jumping frog -- Glorious whitewasher -- On the decay of the art of living -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Death of Jean -- How I was sold in Newark -- On the babies -- About barbers -- On the weather -- Colonel Sellers's schemes for money-making -- Stolen white elephant -- Corn pone opinions -- Rank and dignity of piloting -- My first lie, and how I got out of it -- Maxims of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- On the ladies -- Seventieth birthday -- Curious dream -- Petrified man -- Mark Twain writes to amuse his mother.

subjects: short stories,  Fiction,  Frogs,  Frogs in fiction,  American Humorous stories,  Contests,  Contests in fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Compulsive gamblers,  American literature,  Compulsive gamblers in fiction,  Humorous stories,  American wit and humor,  Zamorano 80,  American Short stories,  Nouvelles américaines

Places: California,  Calaveras County (Calif.),  Calaveras County

Times: 19th century