s, 'Well, I'll risk two-and-a-half that she don't anyway'" (Twain 19). Language is present in most of Twain's works to show where he's from. Some even believe he used this form of language to remind himself of where he came from – just a small southern town. Smiley shows pity in his language near the end of the story:
             "And the feller studies a minute and then says, kinder sad-like, 'Well, I'm only a stranger here and I ain't got no frog; but if I had a frog, I'd bet you'" (Twain 22).
             "This sad tone is used to set Smiley up, but it is also the tome
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