The frog that made him famous, from his first major success, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County :
"'What might it be that you've got in the box?'
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, 'It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog.'
And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?'
'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'He's good enough for one thing, I should judge he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.'"
—from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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