3. A frame story is a story within a story. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog from Calaveras. County" is a frame story. In two or more sentences, summarize each story below.

Answer and Explanation:

An unknown and unnamed man from the East comes to a western mining town. At the request of a friend, the narrator talks with Simon Wheeler to know about Leonidas W. Smiley. Wheeler starts telling him about a tall tale, a man named Jim Smiley, without giving the narrator the information that he asks for.

Jim Smiley was a man who could bet on anything. He has a frog as a pet, and over that frog, he bet a stranger that his frog, named Dan’l Webster, could jump higher than any other frog. While Smiley was not there, the stranger filled Dan’l Webster with a recoil shot. Eventually, Smiley lost the bet. Before he could get to know, the stranger went away with the money of $40 that he won by cheating.

He gets tired of the long tale about Jim Smiley and his frog; the narrator tries to escape from Wheeler before he started any other story. The narrator comes to know that maybe his friend deliberately wants him to suffer through Wheeler's unvaryingly tale. And then saying goodbye, he leaves.