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Smiley brags of the talents of his jumping frog, Dan'l Webster, to Uncle Henry and his niece Lulu. The Stranger enters and hears Smiley's boasting. When the Stranger doubts Daniel's abilities, Smiley bets $40 that Dan'l can best any other frog in Calaveras County. The Stranger says he does not have a frog to compete so Smiley leaves to find one.
He catches a frog, whom he names Dan'l Webster, and spends three months training it to jump. When a stranger visits the camp, Jim shows off Dan'l and offers to bet $40 that it can out-jump any other frog in Calaveras County. The stranger, unimpressed, says that he would take the bet if he had a frog, so Jim goes out to catch one, leaving him ...
Daniel Webster, a United States Senator and Secretary of State; Dan'l Webster (train) , a named train that used to run between New York City and Boston; Dan'l Webster, the name of a fictional frog featured in Mark Twain's short story " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " and Lukas Foss's opera based on that story, The Jumping Frog ...
He brings a jumping frog which he calls Daniel Webster with him, and immediately upon his arrival to the town hotel makes a bet with Sheriff Dingle and a few others, that the frog can jump when told to do so. He wins the bet and is able to pay for his stay at the hotel with the money.
Read on for the spiritual and practice meaning of various common scenarios found in frog dreams, like frogs jumping on you, frogs in your house or even frogs chasing you. I dreamed a frog jumped ...
Daniel Webster The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Lukas Foss: Opera adaptation of Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Jeremiah (Bullfrog) Joy to the World: Three Dog Night: Referred to in "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night: "Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Was a good friend of mine.
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“So for example, if you see a coach jump off a bench at a basketball game, start waving his arms in the air and getting upset about a call, if you look right behind him, you see the parents ...