then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil". In "Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story", Twain recounts how he encountered some plagiarism of the story from an unlikely source. He was surprised to find that the frog story was apparently sourced from an ancient Greek tale. He wrote: Later, however, in November 1903, Twain noted that he had uncovered the anachronism of finding Twain's story in Sidgwick's Greek textbook: But in A. Sidgwick's "Note To The Thirteenth Edition" (1907), among "hearty... thanks for... help received", Prof. Sidgwick still failed to acknowledge his use of the Twain tale. Adaptations Lukas Foss composed The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an opera in two scenes with libretto by Jean Karsavina, based on Twain's story. The opera premiered on May 18, 1950, at Indiana University. The story was also adapted as a scene in the film The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), in which Mark Twain retells the story in short to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher. Short story collection The short story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twain's first book, contains 27 short stories and sketches. It was published by the American News Company in 1867 under the editorship of Twain's friend Charles Henry Webb. Privately, to his colleague Bret Harte, Twain wrote it was "full of damnable errors of grammar and deadly inconsistencies of spelling in the Frog sketch because I did not read the proofs". After its May release, the book suffered from lackluster sales. The collection included: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" "A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco" "Answers to Correspondents" "Among the Fenians" "The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief" "Curing a Cold" "An Inquiry about Insurances" "Literature in the Dry Diggings" "'After' Jenkins" "Lucretia Smith's Soldier" "The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'" "An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand" "Among the Spirits" "Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington" "A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood" "A Page from a Californian Almanac" "Information for the Million" "The Launch of the Steamer Capital" "Origin of Illustrious Men" "Advice for Good Little Girls" "Concerning Chambermaids" "Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind" "Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu" "The Steed 'Oahu'" "A Strange Dream" "Short and Singular Rations" See also Frog jumping Translation