 The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder — so — at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n...  In Defense of Harriet Shelley: And Other Essays - Page 104by Mark Twain - 1918 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 240 pages
...stranger walks into the little store and takes a long, close look at Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog. Then : "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." It is to be noted that no such place as the Big Thicket is even mentioned in what is generally regarded... | |
 | George Plimpton - American literature - 1992 - 508 pages
...no idea what the matter was, of course. Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, "Well," he says, "/ don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'la long time, and at last says, "I do wonder... | |
 | J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - Authors, American - 1993 - 952 pages
...stops at the door, turns and points to the lead-filled frog, and repeats his earlier observation: "J don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." In the end, however, Twain righdy returns to his human characters treated in a comic, not pathetic,... | |
 | Stuart Hutchinson - American wit and humor - 1994 - 144 pages
...nowhere. His language is the affectation of Eastern, Old World manners, just as the stranger's language ("I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog") may be the affectation of Western speech. Where Twain finally stands in this story is impossible to... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 674 pages
...justified in protesting that the French sentence does not truly render the untranslateable original "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." Graphic sketches of the famous or notorious riots in the Austrian Parliament in October, 1897, fill... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 500 pages
...jerked his thumb over his shoulders — this way — at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, 'Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.' 170 Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'la long time, and at last he says,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Short stories, American - 2000 - 136 pages
...what has a poor foreigner like me done, to be abused and misrepresented like this ? When I say, "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog," is it kind, is it just, for this Frenchman to try to make it appear that I said, "Eh bien ! I no saw... | |
 | John D. Seelye - Fiction - 2000 - 516 pages
...his thumb over his shoulder — so — at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 7 don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.' "Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'la long time, and at last he says, 'I... | |
 | Peter Messent - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 290 pages
...cinq livres" (38), and —on retranslation — "The wolf me bite if he no weigh not five pounds" (43). "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog" (34) becomes, on similar retranslation: "Eh bien! I no saw not that that frog had nothing of better... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 2004 - 488 pages
...going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder - so - at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate: 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no...about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.' Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'la long time, and at last he says, 'I do... | |
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