JIBBY JONES
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A STORY OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER ADVENTURE FOR BOYS
BY
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ARTHUR G. DOVE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1921 AND 1922, BY THE SPRAGUE PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
I.Oliver Parmenter Jones
II.The Pearl-Diggers
III.The Climbing Rabbit
IV.Do Fish Climb Trees?
V.The Fishing Prize
VI.The Prize-Winner
VII.The Tough Customer
VIII.The Red-headed Bandit
IX.The Abduction of Rover
X.The Treasure Hunt
XI.Where is Greenland?
XII.The Worm Mine
XIII.The Viking Ship
XIV.Uncle Beeswax
XV.The Grape Tree
XVI.Congo Magic
XVII.Grains of Sand
XVIII.Pirate’s Treasure
XIX.The Tough Customer appears
XX.Orlando
XXI.Winged Enemies
XXII.A New Swimming-Hole
XXIII.Treasure Trove
XXIV.The Treasure
ILLUSTRATIONS
“This is my big suit”
“I guess he’s got a real nose for fish”
Slapping our knees and chanting away like lunatics
Skippy and I threw an end of the rope into the well and pulled the Tough Customer out
Drawn by Arthur G. Dove
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