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One of Jim's favorite tricks was to train animals to absurd performances and then bet on them. He had a dog once that he trained to do nothing in particular and then held out for large odds on his performing nothing. But his greatest reputation was founded on a frog which he had trained to jump. The frog's name, as I remember, was Daniel Webster — not the statesman, but Jim's frog — and he asserted that Daniel could outjump any frog in the county.