So he set there a good while thinki

So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to his self, and then he got the frog out and prized his
mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail-shot—filled him pretty near up to his
chin—and set him on the floor. Smily he went out to the swamp and stopped around in the mud for a
long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller and says:
“Now if you’re ready, set him alongside of Dan , with his fore-paws just even with Dan’l’s, and I’ll
give the word.” Then he says, “one—two—three—jump!” and him and the feller touched up the frogs
from behind, and the new frog hopped off lively, but Dan ’i give a heave, and hysted up his