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An unknown and unnamed man from the East comes to a western mining town. At the request of a friend, the narrator talks with Simon Wheeler to know about Leonidas W. Smiley. Wheeler starts telling him about a tall tale, a man named Jim Smiley, without giving the narrator the information that he asks for.
Jim Smiley was a man who could bet on anything. He has a frog as a pet, and over that frog, he bet a stranger that his frog, named Dan’l Webster, could jump higher than any other frog. While Smiley was not there, the stranger filled Dan’l Webster with a recoil shot. Eventually, Smiley lost the bet. Before he could get to know, the stranger went away with the money of $40 that he won by cheating.
He gets tired of the long tale about Jim Smiley and his frog; the narrator tries to escape from Wheeler before he started any other story. The narrator comes to know that maybe his friend deliberately wants him to suffer through Wheeler's unvaryingly tale. And then saying goodbye, he leaves.
After reading the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog from Calaveras County," we can write the following sentences to summarize each story:
The main story is that the narrator finds a man named Simon Wheeler and asks him about another man called Leonidas Smiley.
The frame story (the story within the story) is about a man named Smiley who teaches a frog how to jump higher than any other in the county.
Frame stories
When the character of a story tells another story, we have a device called frame story. That is what happens in Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog from Calaveras County."
Simon Wheeler, when asked about Leonidas Smiley, begins to tell an absurd story, most likely a lie or a myth. This second story told by Wheeler is the frame story.
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