In reading William Dean Howells' _The Rise of Silas Lapham_ for the first time, I was delighted to see Penelope Lapham say: "I don't see any p'ints about that frog that's any better than any other frog." Was "The Jumping Frog" enough of a cultural fixture in 1885 for readers to easily recognize that line, or do you suppose its inclusion in _Silas Lapham_ was just a friendly private gesture toward Twain? Chuck