SOURCE: "The Deadpan on Simon Wheeler," in Southwest Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer, 1956, pp. 270-77.
In the following essay, Schmidt investigates Twain's use of comic gravity in Simon Wheeler's narration of the frog story.
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