The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain, has a similar story!
First thing I thought of too, except in that story, the cheater sabotaged the competition’s frog with lead pellets rather than trying to enhance his own frog.
13 posted on 10/14/2022 12:11:48 AM PDT by fidelis
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