One day an individual stranger at the camp him arrested with his box and him said: 

“What is this that you have them shut up there within?”

Smiley said, with an air indifferent: 

“That could be a paroquet, or a syringe (ou un serin), but this no is nothing of such, it not is but a frog.”

The individual it took, it regarded with care, it turned from one side and from the other, then he said: 

“Tiens! in effect!—­At what is she good?”

“My God!” respond Smiley, always with an air disengaged, “she is good for one thing, to my notice (A mon avis), she can better in jumping (elle pent battre en sautant) all frogs of the county of Calaveras.”

The individual retook the box, it examined of new longly, and it rendered to Smiley in saying with an air deliberate: 

“Eh bien!  I no saw not that that frog had nothing of better than each frog.” (Je ne vois pas que cette grenouille ait rien de mieux qu’aucune grenouille.) [If that isn’t grammar gone to seed, then I count myself no judge.—­M.  T.]

“Possible that you not it saw not,” said Smiley, “possible that you—­you comprehend frogs; possible that you not you there comprehend nothing; possible that you had of the experience, and possible that you not be but an amateur.  Of all manner (De toute maniere) I bet forty dollars that she better in jumping no matter which frog of the county of Calaveras.”

The individual reflected a second, and said like sad: 

“I not am but a stranger here, I no have not a frog; but if I of it had one, I would embrace the bet.”

“Strong well!” respond Smiley; “nothing of more facility.  If you will hold my box a minute, I go you to search a frog (j’irai vous chercher).”

Behold, then, the individual, who guards the box, who puts his forty dollars upon those of Smiley, and who attends (et qui attend).  He attended enough long times, reflecting all solely.  And figure you that he takes Daniel, him opens the mouth by force and with a teaspoon him fills with shot of the hunt, even him fills just to the chin, then he him puts by the earth.  Smiley during these times was at slopping in a swamp.  Finally he trapped (attrape) a frog, him carried to that individual, and said: 

“Now if you be ready, put him all against Daniel with their before feet upon the same line, and I give the signal”—­then he added:  “One, two, three—­advance!”

Him and the individual touched their frogs by behind, and the frog new put to jump smartly, but Daniel himself lifted ponderously, exalted the shoulders thus, like a Frenchman—­to what good? he not could budge, he is planted solid like a church he not advance no more than if one him had put at the anchor.

Smiley was surprised and disgusted, but he no himself doubted not of the turn being intended (mais il ne se doutait pas du tour, bien entendu).  The individual empocketed the silver, himself with it went, and of it himself in going is it that he no gives not a jerk of thumb over the shoulder—­like that—­at the poor Daniel, in saying with his air deliberate—­(L’individu empoche l’argent, s’en va et en s’en allant est-ce qu’il ne donne pas un coup d pouce par-dessus l’epaule, comme ga, au pauvre Daniel, en disant de son air delibere):