About This Date
A story about a jumping frog made Mark Twain famous. It was first published in 1865 as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" while Twain was still a struggling journalist in California - and two years later it was the main attraction of his first book. He never wrote another short story that had such widespread appeal and was so popular.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
I've never even heard about this day until today while I was looking for some Mother's Day e-cards to send out to some friends! Of course, it's about frogs, so I **HAD** to share!! :)
3 comments:
I never heard of that before either, but it's making me very curious about it! If he got famous for it, it must be really good hah?
It's something special with frogs, so much people is interested in them and it can't be just for the frog prince thing *lol*
and it's the 13th? Hmm, Little A will be proud to share her bday with frogs LOL
Wow its really interesting! Thanks for the sharing the hoppy link. keep 'em coming....
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