Smiley got him so the frog was catching flies, and he would catch one of those insects every time.

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But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better,thank God.

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The other dog was going to win and Smiley's dog looked surprised and did not try to win the fight anymore.

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I added that if Mister Wheeler could tell me anything about this Leonidas W.Smiley, I would feel a great responsibility to him.

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Smiley always come out the winner on that dog, at least until he found a dog once that did not have any back legs.

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Then when Smiley's dog come to make a grab the other dog's back legs, he saw in a minute how there was a problem.

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Lots of the boys here have seen that Smiley and can tell you about him.

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"Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he can out jump any frog in Calaveras County."

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Then all of a sudden Smiley's dog would grab that other dog by his back leg and hang on till the men said it was over.

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Now Smiley had caught another frog and gave it to the man and said, "Now sit him next to Dan'l and I will give the word."

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"Well," Smiley says,easy and careless, "he can out jump any frog in Calaveras county."

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Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do almost anything.

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Smiley stood looking down at Dan'l a long time, and at last says,"

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Smiley was very proud of his frog, and people who had traveled and been everywhere all said he was better than any frog they had ever seen.

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"Well,this here Smiley had a yellow cow with one eye and no tail..."

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I told him a friend had asked me to find out about a friend named Leonidas W.Smiley, who he heard was at one time living in Angel's Camp.

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Then Smiley's dog walked away, laid down and died.

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and Smiley and the other man touched the frogs.

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He gave Smiley a look that said he was sorry for fighting a dog that did not have any back legs for him to hold, which he needed to win a fight.

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He told me to wait but I did not think that more stories about Jim Smiley would give me any more information about Leonidas W.Smiley, and so I started to walk away.

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And Smiley says, "It's only just a frog."

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The man took the box again, and took another long look, and gave it back to Smiley,and says, "Well,I don't see anything about that frog that is any better than any other frog."

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And Smiley was the angriest man.

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And then Smiley says, "That's all right.

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"Maybe you don't," Smiley says.

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Then Smiley says,"One-two-three-go!"

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"People from Thailand are not like this usually, they are not like smiley people.

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