Excerpt from The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, Then Clawed Back Into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous Old Simon Wheeler, and in quired after my friend's friend, Leo nidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leo nidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.