The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, By Mark Twain

Dan Baker

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Description

This is a sample of a recording of one of my favorite short stories by Mark Twain, which I recorded for my daughter while I was out of town. As a southerner, I am very sensitive to how difficult it is to master accents as they differ from region to region, and as they change throughout time. This is a great example of a particular vein of southern dialect which is difficult to master in casual verse and conversation.

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (South West - Texas) North American (US South)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
in compliance with the request of a friend of mine who wrote me from the East. I called on good natured galleries, sold salmon wheeler and acquired after my friends friendly in Addis W. Smiley, as requested to do and I hear into a pen. The result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth that my friend never knew such personage and that he only conjectured that if I asked a wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim smiling and he would go to work. And Borman here with the death of someone formal reminiscence of him as a long and tedious is it should be useless to make. That was a sign. It certainly succeeded. I found someone Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom Stover, the old dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp Angels, and I noticed that he was fat and bald, headed and had an expression of winning generalists and simplicity upon his tranquil continents. He rounded up and gave a good day. I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some enquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood, namely United's Debian Smiley, Reverend Lee United's W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel who he had heard was at one time a resident Angels camp. I had it that if Mr Will, it could tell me anything about this Reverend Leon at a studious, smiling I would feel under many obligations time Somen Whaler back me into a corner and blockaded me.