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Like many of Jim Smiley’s animals, his mare looks weak and unhealthy. Its appearance is deceiving, however, because it often wins races. Smiley has trained the horse to hold back in the race until the very end so that it can suddenly pull ahead of the other horses and unexpectedly win. This allows Smiley to up his bets with people who don’t think his mare will win, consequently making Smiley more money.
The Mare Quotes in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Quotes
“They used to give her two or three hundred yards, start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag end of the race she'd get excited and desperate like, and come cavorting and straddling up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side among the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose-and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead as near as you could cipher it down.”
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Here, Wheeler explains to the unnamed narrator that Smiley loved betting on animals, and he often won his bets regarding their various matches, fights, or races. This was due to the fact that Smiley would buy or find animals that looked very sickly or weak. A surprisingly keen businessman, Smiley knew that people would underestimate his animals’ abilities because they didn’t look like winners, so then his opponents would be willing to bet money against his animals. In this passage, Wheeler explains that the same held true for Smiley’s mare, who looked terribly ill but was extremely well trained and Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntu
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Wheeler recounts how Smiley once trained an unassuming mare to be a racing horse. The mare looked very sickly and always ran at the...
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