October 19 Saturday – Sam and group took a 4 PM train to Seville, arriving at midnight.

The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County was reviewed by Fun, a English rival to Punch, edited by Tom Hood:

…one of the funniest books we have met with for a long time….too long to tell here and too good to spoil by curtailment….There are no misspellings, no contortions of words in Mark Swan [sic]; his fun is entirely dependent upon the inherent humour in his writings. And although many jokers have sent us brochures like the present from the other side of the Atlantic, we have had no book fuller of more genuine or genial fun [Welland 15-16].