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In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," besides his trained frog, Jim Smiley had formerly owned a _____.

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This is an exert from the book that tells all the animals he's had:
Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tom- cats, and all of them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'klated to edercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. ChaCha!
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