Project Gutenberg 2025-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 396 Butler, Ellis Parker 1869 1937 Dove, Arthur Garfield 1880 1946 Dove, Arthur G. Jibby Jones : $b A story of Mississippi River adventure for boys $aBoston, MA :$bHoughton & Mifflin Company, $c1923. Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Jibby Jones : A story of Mississippi River adventure for boys" by Butler is a children’s adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows a crew of Riverbank boys who befriend the tall, literal, and endearingly odd Jibby Jones, a newcomer with an author father, as they dive into river mischief, fishing contests, and the tantalizing hint of a hidden pirate hoard. It’s a humorous, good‑natured tale of ingenuity, friendship, and life on the Mississippi. The opening of the novel introduces Birch Island’s stilted cottages and the boys—Tad, Skippy, Wampus, and the narrator—meeting Jibby, whose giant “jib” nose, calm logic, and far‑flung river anecdotes make him unforgettable. After Jibby fixes their balky motor and charms them with his offbeat thinking (like calling his too‑small clothes his “big suit”), the group pranks him with a tall tale about nose‑diving for pearls; Jibby dives anyway and, to everyone’s shock, surfaces with a large pearl that keeps his family on the island. A rainy‑day story from Jibby about the land pirate John A. Murrell—plus the clue “Riverbank” and the lone‑pine signal—spurs them to form a treasure‑hunting club, while a sapling‑catapult fishing stunt flings a carp into a tree, fueling comic debates about animals “climbing.” The boys then compete for Uncle Oscar’s fishing prize: Jibby seems to “smell” fish but actually wins by smart preparation—choosing a proven hole and “scouring” worms per Izaak Walton—before the section closes with the narrator’s dog Rover back home and howling, hinting that nightfall and new trouble lie ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/jibbyjonesstoryo00butl_0 20250503022203butler 1923 US Reading ease score: 89.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Boys -- Juvenile fiction Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction Mississippi River -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 407852 2025-08-11T09:01:01.336909 text/html 374175 2025-07-25T14:05:12 text/html 740217 2025-08-11T09:01:15.586789 application/epub+zip 745532 2025-08-11T09:01:07.858876 application/epub+zip 285168 2025-08-11T09:01:03.595863 application/epub+zip 1384150 2025-08-11T09:01:22.610815 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1357290 2025-08-11T09:01:15.038792 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 382891 2025-08-11T09:01:00.428906 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 355656 2025-07-25T13:03:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15093 2025-08-11T09:01:22.757756 application/rdf+xml 26289 2025-08-11T09:01:07.402842 image/jpeg 4154 2025-08-11T09:01:07.288830 image/jpeg 724288 2025-08-11T09:01:01.386889 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia