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Updated: May 28, 2025
"She says she'll never tell and when she dies she will bequeath the recipe to her best friend. Won't that sound funny in a will?" Kit laughed heartily at these new friends and Bet continued: "Oh yes, Auntie Gibbs makes a sort of religion out of her cooking.
A correspondent, Philip Gibbs, describes some of them as living skeletons. Of one typical group he says "they were so thin and weak they could scarcely walk, and had dry skins, through which their cheekbones stood out, and the look of men who had been buried and come to life again. Many of them were covered with blotches. 'It was six months of starvation, said one young man who was a mere wreck.
And yet he feared to leave. At this stage of his dilemma, he was relieved from his plight in a very unexpected manner. A big wagon, with two men on the seat, appeared coming up the valley road. It was Wash Gibbs and a crony from the river. They had stopped at the distillery on their way, and were just enough under the influence of drink to be funny and reckless.
The grim face of the elder Matthews showed both pleasure and amusement. "You're mistaken, Mister; the boy's mine alright, an' he's all that you say, an' more, I reckon. I doubt if there's a man in the hills can match him to-day; not excepting Wash Gibbs; an' he's a mighty good boy, too. But the girl is a daughter of a neighbor, and no kin at all."
I'd like to have run away you see, but I had to wait for the package Mr. Gibbs sent me after." "You're altogether too modest, Dick. Most boys would have puffed out with pride after doing such a thing; but I like you all the better for it, my boy.
There were other children in the home who were only too ready to welcome the pretty little Toni; and after a stay of some weeks in the noisy Brixton house Roger Gibbs had bidden his little daughter farewell, and had gone forth once more, this time as assistant purser on a liner, a post to which one of his former employers had assisted him opportunely.
The mate did not deny it, but his face was so full of grief and surprise that the other's heart sank within him. "All right," said the mate at last; "have it your own way." "Hold your tongue, Ted," shouted Mrs. Gibbs; "you're trying to shield him." "I tell you Ted brought her aboard, and they had a lover's quarrel," said her unhappy spouse. "It's nothing to do with me at all."
Billy Brackett, still panting from his exertions, was bending over Binney Gibbs, who was struggling back to consciousness. Solon was sitting up, tenderly feeling of his swollen features, and declaring, "Dat ar man hab a fis' lak de hin laig ob a mewel." Glen and Winn had manned one of the sweeps, and were trying to get the raft properly headed with the current.
John C. Fremont, "the pathfinder overland to California." "The Sage of Tuskegee." Saving my earnings, I joined a firm already established in the clothing business. After a year or more so engaged, I became a partner in the firm of Lester & Gibbs, importers of fine boots and shoes. Just here a thought occurs which may be of advantage to ambitious but impecunious young men.
All you might have said afterwards would have amounted to nothing; it would have been an old story; I would have announced it long before. The glory would have been mine mine for all ages to come." "But, you foolish man," exclaimed Mr. Gibbs, "you would have perished up there no fire, no shelter but that cabin, and very little food.
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