"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" The story starts with an introduction. The author introduces the background of the storyteller, whose name is Simon Wheeler. The author was told that he might ask Simon Wheeler about Reverend Levidas W. Smiley who is the person author's friend is looking for. Simon Wheeler has been Angle's Camp where Smiley resident. The narrator finds Wheeler in the bar room and describes Wheeler as "fat and bald-headed, and …showed first 75 words of 348 total…

…showed last 75 words of 348 total…came to Angel's Camp. Smiley makes stinger to bet $40 that Webster can beat any frog in Calaveras County in a jumping contest. While Jim Smiley gone for catching a frog for the stranger, the stranger picked up Dan'l Webster and filled him up to the chin with buckshot. In later jumping contest Webster sit as still as a statue. The stranger left in a hurry with the $40. Moment later, Smiley found out he is tricked.