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Actually, no. Here's the sequence of titles.

1. "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the *Saturday Press,* 18 Nov 1865

2. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in the *Californian*
reprint, 16 Dec 1865, which also changed "Smiley" to "Greeley" throughout.
Mark
Twain almost certainly revised the copy and supplied the new title, which
echoed the title he used in the unfinished and unpublished MS for "The Only
Reliable Account of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Harte
reprinted it in the *Californian* presumably using copy revised and
corrected
by Clemens. This title was also used in the *Jumping Frog* book (1867) for
which Clemens submitted a revised copy of the *Californian* (restoring
"Smiley"). And it was used in the Routledge reprints of the JF book, as well
as
in the authorized *Mark Twain's Sketches* they issued with revised text by
Clemens in 1872.

3. "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"  was the title used by Hotten when
he
reprinted the *Jumping Frog* book and the sketch several times between 1871
and
1873. It is without authority of any kind.

4. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in *Mark Twain's
Sketches,
No. 1,* the text of which derived from Routledge's *Mark Twain's Sketches.*
Mark Twain clearly supplied the new word. And he clearly used this
typesetting
when he reprinted the sketch, with elaborate translation into French etc.,
in
*Sketches, New and Old.*

Bob Hirst

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