The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras By MARK TWAIN Listen to the story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country in compliance with the request of a friend of mine who wrote me from the east I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler and inquired after my friends friend Leonidas W smiley as requested to do and I hear unto a pen to the result I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W smiley is a myth and that my friend never knew such a personage and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him it would remind him of his infamous Jim smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperatingly reminisces of…