Frog Job

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain

Have a pet frog that jumps well? Join professional frog-jumping teams from all over the world and enter it in the “Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee ” held the third weekend in May in Calaveras County, California. Remember, while you can’t train a frog, it’s important to pick a good’un that jumps straight. “If your frog jumps in a circle, even if it’s a REALLY big circle, that would count as zero feet.”

About the author

Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, with William Faulkner calling him “the father of American literature”. Twain’s novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the “Great American Novel”. He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”