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On a dog named Andrew Jackson, and a frog named Dan'l Webster

Some fun with Mark Twain

Dear Readers: Another change of pace! The short story that put America’s most brilliant humorist before the public: “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”

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