He calls it: "You have to have a feeling for what makes the frog jump."

A few heavy lifters were needed to cart away the prizes Jane had won at ring toss, frog jump, knock-down-the- bottles, skeeball, etc.

God made the frog jump; but the frog prefers jumping.

The tadpole, before he makes his frog jump is confined to a very small extent of water.

"And like the prince, you know, who had a frog jump out of his mouth, the words 'Mary Lincoln' jumped out of my mouth."

Ray Malerbi, chief executive of the fair, which he said could draw up to 50,000 people in a good year, said his board was also concerned that "the frog jump was beginning to lose its hold and that it was either stagnating or at least not moving forward."

So this spring, they announced that they would stage their own frog jump in a local park on the same weekend as the fair.

You had to have a feeling for what makes the frog jump.

Bureaucrats have thrown a hurdle in the way of the giant frogs from Cameroon that a man wants to enter in Calaveras County's annual frog jump.