"The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder—so—at Daniel, and says again, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no points about that frog that's any better than any other frog.'
"Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Daniel a long time, and at last he says, 'I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw'd off for—I wonder if there ain't something the matter with him—he's pears to look mighty baggy, somehow.' And he ketched Daniel by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, 'Why blame my cats if he don't weigh five pounds!' and turned him upside down and he belched out a double handful of shot. And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man—he set the frog down and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him. And—"