Jibby Jones

Wampus Smale

Jibby and Wampus are close friends and frequent companions on adventures, with Wampus often serving as a loyal sidekick.

Tad Willing

Tad Willing is Jibby's best friend and constant ally, sharing in his exploits and providing steadfast support.

Father

Father is Jibby's parent, offering guidance and occasional discipline in their close family bond.

Skippy Root

Skippy Root is a friend and fellow adventurer who often joins Jibby on his escapades.

Oscar Smale

Oscar Smale is a friend and brother of Wampus, often involved in Jibby's adventures.

Uncle Beeswax

Uncle Beeswax is Jibby's eccentric uncle, offering advice and occasional comic relief.

Bill Catlin

Bill Catlin is a friend and ally who joins Jibby in various adventures and scrapes.

Cawl Romer

Cawl Romer is a friend and occasional companion in Jibby's adventures.

The Rat

The Rat is a sneaky antagonist who often opposes Jibby and his friends.

Orlando

Orlando is a friend and fellow adventurer who joins Jibby on various quests.

Father

Father is Jibby's parent, offering guidance and occasional discipline in their close family bond.

Wampus Smale

Jibby and Wampus are close friends and frequent companions on adventures, with Wampus often serving as a loyal sidekick.

I: Oliver Parmenter Jones

Arrives at Birch Island with his family; introduces himself as Oliver Parmenter Jones, explains his nickname, and demonstrates knowledge of motorboats and rivers.

II: The Pearl-Diggers

Takes the boys' pearl-diving stories at face value, dives into the mud with his nose, and successfully retrieves a pearl worth $1,200.

The Climbing Rabbit

Joins the boys under the cottage during the rain, shares stories about the land pirate M'rell and the treasure map, and debates the possibility of rabbits climbing trees.

IV: Do Fish Climb Trees?

Devises the elm sapling fishing method and later uses the carp-in-tree incident to encourage Skippy about treasure hunting.

The Fishing Prize

Tells the boys more about Murrell's treasure, demonstrates his flexible nose, and claims he can identify a bee's home tree by smell.

VI: The Prize-Winner

Claims he will win the fishing prize, performs odd sniffing behaviors, and ultimately wins the contest by using knowledge from Izaak Walton's book and advice from Orpheus Cadwallader.

VII: The Tough Customer

Wins the fishing prize, makes a humorous speech about his nose, and leads the boys in spying on the Tough Customer and the Rat.

VIII: The Redheaded Bandit

Jibby pins the wet map inside his hat to dry.

X: The Treasure Hunt

Suggests the worm mine idea to avoid mosquitoes; later reveals and interprets the treasure map, planning the hunt with precise sighting instructions.

Where Is Greenland?

Leads the expedition to the ruined cellar, uses pacing and map analysis to disprove the location, and later proposes mining the worm mine to fund boat repairs.

XII: The Worm Mine

Leads the worm mining operation, advises on staking a claim and mining techniques, and later credits for solving the cider mystery.

XIII: The Viking Ship

Identifies the 'Viking ship' as a molasses barrel, remains calm during the flood, and cleverly evades the Tough Customer's demands.

XIV: Uncle Beeswax

Defends Uncle Beeswax, shows the grape tree map to the Tough Customer, and bonds with Uncle Beeswax over their noses.

XV: The Grape Tree

Sits with the narrator by the mud cove, rigs a trotline, and receives the map from Uncle Beeswax.

Congo Magic

Devises a clever trick using a trotline and screw eyes to slow the Romer brothers' skiff, pretending to perform Congo magic.

Grains of Sand

Shows his sand collection and deduces that the green sand in Murrell's Run is linked to the land pirate's treasure.

XVIII: Pirate’s Treasure

Stays by the signal tree to think out the treasure's location, rubs his nose, bumps his head on the tree, and finally declares he knows where the treasure is. He insists on getting the green sand before the treasure.

XIX: The Tough Customer Appears

Explains his imaginative method for locating the treasure, arguing that imagination is key to progress. He deduces the treasure is buried at the foot of a signal pine tree.

XX: Orlando

Orchestrates the recovery of the 1804 dollar by using a cat (Orlando) to intimidate the Tough Customer; later insists on finding a suitable thinking place.

Winged Enemies

Delays the treasure dig, asks about Bill Catlin's disposition and lighting, and goes to collect green sand from Murrell's Run.

A New Swimming-Hole

Leads the boys after the bee stings, explains the green sand illusion, and orchestrates the sabotage of the treasure hunters' supplies.

XXIII: Treasure Trove

Slow and deliberate, Jibby uses his knowledge of treasure trove law to outmaneuver Bill Catlin, then cleverly suggests charging the crowd a dollar each to dig, turning a potential conflict into profit.

XXIV: The Treasure

Orchestrates the treasure hunt, collects admission fees, outwits the Arkansas men and the Tough Customer, discovers the treasure box, and decides to keep the gold. Shows greater interest in the green sand grains than the money.