THE JC/MPING FROG. 



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wanted.] And turning to me as he moved away, he said : " Just set where you are, stranger, and 

 rest easy — I ain't going to be gone a second." 



But, by your leave, I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond 

 yim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, 

 and so I started away. 



At the door I met the sociable Wlieeler returning, and he button-holed me and re-commenced : 



" Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yaller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only jest a short 

 stump like a bannanner, and " 



However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the aflSicted cow, but 

 took my leave. 



Now let the learned look upon this picture and say if iconoclasm can further go : 



[From the Revue des Deux Mondes, of July 15th, 1872.] 

 LA GRENOUILI.E SANTEUSE DU COMTE DE CALAVERAS. 

 ' — II y avait une fois ici un individu connu sous le nom de Jim Smiley : c'etait dans I'hiver de 

 49, peut-etre bien au printemps de 50, je ne me rappelle pas exactement. Ce qui me fait croire que 



