"What might it be that you've got in the box?"
And Smiley says, sort of indifferent like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it ain't -- it's only just a frog."
And the fellow took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm -- so it is. Well, what's he good for?"
"Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge -- he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras county." |
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The fellow took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no points about that frog that's any better than any other frog."
from "The.Celebrated.Jumping.Frog.of.Calaveras.County" by Mark.Twain |
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