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Jim Smiley acted differently when a stranger asked him about Dan'l Webster because was hoping to convince the stranger to bet on how well Dan'l Webster, Smiley's frog, could jump. This comes from the book, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain.

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