The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

How does paragraph 1 contribute to the development of the story’s theme in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?

This is a R.A.C.E question on my commonlit that is due tomorrow and I really need help, I have more questions but I want to ask one at a time...

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The letter?

Mr. A. Ward,
Dear Sir: -- Well, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after your friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as you requested me to do, and I hereunto append the result. If you can get any information out of it you are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him 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 your design, Mr. Ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.