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Show Twain No Plagiarist Mark Twain's famous "Jumping Frog" story caused much discussion. Twain related the story as having happened in Calaveras county, Calif., in 1840. Professor Van Dyke of Princeton Prince-ton pointed to the fact that the story is told in ancient Greek as having happened 2,000 years ago. Clemens felt that the California story could not have been bused upon the Greek one. since the man who told the story as a fact was a simple, ignorant fellow fel-low with no contact with literature Clemens decided that the .similarity of the two tale)! sbouW be laid to coincidence. |