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4 4The Jumping Frog 卡城名蛙.txt第一次笑是因为遇见你，第一次哭是因为你不在，第一次笑着流泪是因为不能拥有你。 The Celebrated Jumping Prog of Calaveras County Chapter One: A Letter from the East One day a friend of mine from the East wrote me a letter. He asked me to visit an old man named Simon Wheeler. My friend wanted me to ask Simon Wheeler about a childhood companion①, Leonidas W. Smiley. I found Simon Wheeler sleeping by the stove of the old tavern② in Angels Mining Camp. I noticed that he was fat. His face was simple and peaceful. When he woke up, I told him that a friend of mine wanted to know about a childhood companion named Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon Wheeler blocked me with his chair in a corner of the tavern. Then, very seriously, he began to tell me the story that follows. There was once a fellow③ at the mining camp named Jim Smiley. It was the winter of 1849 or maybe the spring of 1850. He was an unusual man. He always bet④ money on anything that happened at the mining camp, and he usually won. Jim Smiley was a very lucky man. When there was a horse race, a dog-fight⑤, a cat-fight or a chicken-fight he always bet on them. ① childhood companion：儿时玩伴。 ② tavern：酒馆。 ③ fellow：人。 ④ bet：赌博。 ⑤ dog－fight：逗狗。 《超越哈佛》徐老师原典英语——中级素材 “原典英语自学法”交流论坛 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 4 / 22 Chapter Two: Bets and Races Smiley owned an old horse that was slow and sick, but he won money on her. The poor horse had asthma① and other animal illnesses. At races she had a head start②, because of her health problems. Near the end of every race, she became very excited and desperate③. She galloped④ wildly, kicked her legs in the air, to the sides, raised the dust⑤, coughed⑥, and blew her nose. At the end of the race, she was always the happy winner. Smiley also had a small bulldog named Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson was a lazy dog and did nothing all day long. But when Smiley bet money on him, he was lively and ready to fight. When there was an important dogfight a