Answer:
The narrator refers again to Leonidas W. Smiley.
The narrator escapes before Wheeler can tell another long story.
Explanation:
Mark Twain's short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is his introduction to the literary world of writing. Becoming a hug success, it catapulted Twain as a great story writer and thus paved the way for his literary experience.
In this short story, the narrator had been sent by his friend to inquire about his friend, a Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley but ended up being told the story of another Smiley, Jim Smiley and his his frog who could out-jump all the frogs in the county. After he had heard the story, the narrator decided to leave while the source of the Jim Smiley story Simon Wheeler had been called. Ending the story with another reference to the Rev. Smiley, the narrator escapes before he is "captured" to listen t the story of the cow. this way, twain completes the frame of the story.
<em>"I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, and so I started away........ bidding the old gentleman good-day, I departed."</em>
