The document provides context and discussion questions about Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". It introduces the frame story structure where one story is told within another. The outer story features a narrator who meets Simon Wheeler, who proceeds to tell the story of a man named Leonidas W. Smiley and his frog that could allegedly outjump any other frog. However, through humorous exaggeration and Wheeler's folksy manner of storytelling, the frog's abilities become absurd and the outcome is determined by cheating rather than jumping ability.

1. Short Story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain English III—CHS C. Edge