Read the following excerpts from "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Write in your own words what you think each one means.

"Thish-yer Smiley had a mare—the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was
only in fun, you know, because of course she was faster than that and he used to win
money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper,
or the consumption, or something of that kind."