SOURCE: "The Ancestor of the 'Jumping Frog'," in The Bookman, Vol. 53, No. 1, April, 1921, pp. 143-45.
In the following essay, Morrissey recounts a Virginia tale about a man and a trained grasshopper, claiming it to be a prototype of Twain's jumping frog story.
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