Jibby Jones by Ellis Parker Butler

The next morning we all went down to the shaft-house, which was the old shack near Mosquito Hollow, and set to work in the worm mine. Jibby's idea was that we should mine some first-class worms and then set a trotline in the river and bait it with the worms, and twice a day we would "run" the trotline and get the fish. Then we would sell the fish to our folks and to the other families on our island. And, every day when we were not running the trotline, we would be catching fish with poles, and we would sell those fish, too. And before the summer was over, we would, maybe, have enough money to have Wampus's motorboat mended.

Well, I don't know how that would have worked out, because we did not raise the money that way. We got it by solving the mystery of the stolen cider that we had heard the Rat talking to the Tough Customer about. But the credit belongs to Jibby Jones -- I guess you will see that.