有声书 | The Jumping Frog 卡城名蛙 01

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书名：

The Jumping Frog 《卡城名蛙》

作者：

Mark Twain

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Chapter One: A Letter from the East

One day a friend of mine from the Eastwrote me a letter. He asked me to visit an old man named Simon Wheeler. Myfriend wanted me to ask Simon Wheeler about a childhood companion①, Leonidas W.Smiley.

I found Simon Wheeler sleeping by the stoveof the old tavern② in Angel's Mining Camp. I noticed that he was fat. His facewas simple and peaceful. When he woke up, I told him that a friend of minewanted to know about a childhood companion named Leonidas W. Smiley.

Simon Wheeler blocked me with his chair ina corner of the tavern. Then, very seriously, he began to tell me the storythat follows.

There was once a fellow③ at the mining campnamed Jim Smiley. It was the winter of 1849 or maybe the spring of 1850. He wasan unusual man. He always bet④ money on anything that happened at the miningcamp, and he usually won. Jim Smiley was a very lucky man. When there was ahorse race, a dog-fight⑤, a cat-fight or a chicken-fight he always bet on them. 

Words

① childhood companion：儿时玩伴。

② tavern：酒馆。

③ fellow：人。

④ bet：赌博。

⑤ dog－fight：逗狗。

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