# Jibby Jones — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Jibby Jones by Ellis Parker Butler.

- [I: Oliver Parmenter Jones](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/i-oliver-parmenter-jones.md): The narrator introduces the Riverbank boys and their pride in the Mississippi River. A new boy, Jibby Jones, arrives at Birch Island and impresses Tad, Skippy, Wampus, and the narrator with his unusual stories and mechan
- [II: The Pearl-Diggers](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/ii-the-pearl-diggers.md): The boys try to fool Jibby Jones with tall tales about pearl diving in the Mississippi, claiming that pearl mussels burrow deep in the mud and must be 'nosed out' by divers. Jibby takes them seriously, dives into the sha
- [The Climbing Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/iii-the-climbing-rabbit.md): On a rainy day, the boys gather under a cottage and discuss various topics, including the possibility of rabbits climbing trees, which Wampus insists is true based on his Uncle Oscar's claim. Jibby Jones joins them and s
- [IV: Do Fish Climb Trees?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/iv-do-fish-climb-trees.md): The boys attempt to fish in a muddy slough on Birch Island but struggle to reach deep water. Jibby Jones devises an ingenious method using a bent elm sapling as a giant fishing rod. When a large carp bites, the sapling s
- [The Fishing Prize](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/v-the-fishing-prize.md): The boys form the Land Pirate's Treasure-Hunting and Exploration Company after Jibby shares more details about Murrell's treasure, including the key word 'Riverbank' and the significance of a lone pine tree. The next day
- [VI: The Prize-Winner](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/vi-the-prize-winner.md): Jibby Jones claims he will win the fishing prize, causing laughter among the boys. He performs odd behaviors like sniffing the air, grass, water, and fish scales, leading them to believe he is training his nose to smell 
- [VII: The Tough Customer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/vii-the-tough-customer.md): After the fishing contest dinner and prize ceremony, the boys discover that the Tough Customer and the Rat have not left the island as ordered but have hidden their shanty-boat downstream. Jibby Jones leads the boys to s
- [VIII: The Redheaded Bandit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/viii-the-redheaded-bandit.md): The boys discuss the Tough Customer and the Rat, and Wampus connects the stolen map to the Redheaded Bandit, a scarred man who tried to steal Rover the previous year. George recalls the events surrounding his sister May'
- [IX: The Abduction of Rover](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/ix-the-abduction-of-rover.md): The narrator and Wampus encounter the Redheaded Bandit, who claims Rover is his dog. They refuse to sell him and later nail down the barge cover to trap the bandit, but accidentally send Mr. Edwin Skreever down the river
- [X: The Treasure Hunt](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/x-the-treasure-hunt.md): The boys hold a meeting of the Land Pirate's Treasure-Hunting and Exploration Company in the shaft-house of the Five Friends' Worm Mine. The Worm Mine was created after a failed attempt to dig worms in Mosquito Hollow, w
- [Where Is Greenland?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xi-where-is-greenland.md): The boys follow Jibby to a ruined cellar they believe might be Greenland, but Jibby's careful pacing and map study reveal the location doesn't match. They spot the Tough Customer and the Rat digging at the true site down
- [XII: The Worm Mine](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xii-the-worm-mine.md): The boys work in their worm mine, planning to sell worms to fund repairs for Wampus's motorboat. They stake a claim, discuss a global worm-selling business, and the chapter reveals the backstory of a stolen cider barrel 
- [XIII: The Viking Ship](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xiii-the-viking-ship.md): The boys expand their worm mining operation but worry about flooding. Wampus discovers what they think is a Viking ship, but Jibby identifies it as a barrel of molasses, which bursts and covers them. They collect a rewar
- [XIV: Uncle Beeswax](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xiv-uncle-beeswax.md): The boys encounter Uncle Beeswax being chased by the Tough Customer and the Rat, who mistakenly believe he has their treasure map. Uncle Beeswax reveals he only has a map of a grape tree. Jibby Jones shows the map to the
- [XV: The Grape Tree](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xv-the-grape-tree.md): Two weeks after meeting Uncle Beeswax, Jibby Jones, the narrator, and Wampus are running a trotline when Uncle Beeswax excitedly arrives and reveals he has found a magnificent wild grape tree on Buffalo Island, hidden be
- [Congo Magic](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xvi-congo-magic.md): Jibby Jones uses a mock Congo magic ritual to distract and delay the bullying Romer brothers, Cawl and Hen, from stealing Uncle Beeswax's wild grapes. By secretly attaching his trotline to the skiff's keel with screw eye
- [Grains of Sand](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xvii-grains-of-sand.md): As summer ends, the boys prepare to leave Birch Island for school. Jibby Jones shows them his unique collection of sand grains from around the world, inspiring them to start their own sand collections. When Skippy mentio
- [XVIII: Pirate’s Treasure](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xviii-pirate-s-treasure.md): The boys discover a hollow spot in the cellar floor of the old house and dig up an 1804 silver dollar, which they believe is worth a thousand dollars. Jibby Jones, however, remains fixated on thinking out the location of
- [XIX: The Tough Customer Appears](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xix-the-tough-customer-appears.md): The boys find an 1804 dollar in the dry well of the old Murrell farmhouse. Jibby Jones explains his theory that the treasure is buried at the foot of a signal pine tree, using imagination to deduce its location. The boys
- [XX: Orlando](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xx-orlando.md): Jibby Jones uses a clever trick involving a cat named Orlando (pretending it is a skunk) to recover the stolen 1804 dollar from the Tough Customer, who has fallen into a dry well. Afterward, Jibby insists on finding the 
- [Winged Enemies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xxi-winged-enemies.md): After the Tough Customer is chased away, the boys prepare to dig for Murrell's treasure under the dead pine tree. Jibby Jones delays the dig by asking odd questions about Bill Catlin and insisting on collecting green san
- [A New Swimming-Hole](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xxii-a-new-swimming-hole.md): After a painful encounter with bees, the boys recover and learn from Jibby that the green sand is actually a mix of yellow and blue grains. They retrieve kerosene from Bill Catlin's wife, but upon returning, Jibby warns 
- [XXIII: Treasure Trove](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xxiii-treasure-trove.md): The boys prepare to dig for the land pirate's treasure, but Bill Catlin claims half under 'treasure trove' law. Jibby Jones cleverly argues that treasure belongs to the finder, not the landowner, defusing Catlin's claim.
- [XXIV: The Treasure](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/xxiv-the-treasure.md): The boys collect admission fees from treasure hunters, including a group of Arkansas men claiming to be heirs of John A. Murrell. Jibby outwits the Tough Customer and the Arkansas men, digs up a box containing $1,000 in 
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jibby_jones_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md): A hand-drawn map depicts a building and a point of interest marked with an X near a river and creek, close to two intersecting roads, with the notations '2–3 miles' and 'Greenland' on the right side of the X.

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