How does the narrator turn the tables on the friend who sends him to Simon Wheeler in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?The short...

It is actually the FRIEND who turns the tables on the
NARRATOR in Mark Twain's short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
In the opening paragraph, the narrator tells the reader that his friend has asked him
"to call on garrulous old Simon Wheeler and inquire(d) after my friend's friend,
Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do..." The narrator speculates that his friend knew
that by asking about the aforementioned Leonidas
Smiley, 

it
would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me nearly
to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be
useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly
succeeded.

So, apparently
there was no Leonidas W. Smiley--only a Jim Smiley. The narrator's friend turned the
tables on the narrator by setting into motion the process by which the narrator would
learn of the extremely long-winded tale that climaxed with the humorous story about the
jumping frog.