GUMBO LIMBO (Bursera simaruba) is a south Florida species and is known also as West Indian birch.
In undergrowth in pine woods; beaten from shrubbery, from bayberry bushes, from lower branches of gumbo limbo and other trees, from lower bushes and shrubs in jungle, and from low oaks on hills.
Unluckily Gumbo yielded to the favourite illusion of all servants, white and black, male and female, that anything they find in the library may be used to light a fire with.
Clearly Gumbo was not a mere fancy article, but a negro of real value, whose person it was desirable to obtain possession of at any risk or cost.
So, you see, the chart Gumbo destroyed was imprinted by my father on his black back, and though he knew nothing of the secret he distinctly had it.
I could not sit by within call (had poor Gumbo been capable of calling) and allow my friend to commit such a deed of cruelty.
What was the connection between Gumbo and the spoils of the Sachem's Mound, and how did the treasures of the Aztec Temple of the Sun come to be concealed in the burial place of the Red Man?
I had long ago given up the hypothesis that Gumbo had been purchased out of pure philanthropy.
The scroll was the first edition, the real original, and Gumbo had destroyed it.
One chilly day Gumbo lighted the fire with the newly purchased Indian birch scroll.
And it appeared, from what we could piece together (for old Tom was very reticent and my father very incoherent), that he actually branded or tattooed a copy of what Gumbo had burnt on the nigger's body!
The soft gumbo is not unlike putty; it would make a fair cushion for a broken limb: but I didn't want to halt my story with anybody crippled to that extent; and then I remembered the yellow dog drinking from the blacksmith's tub.
DAVE stops; JIM takes gumbo from fire with tongs, and plunges it in the water.
JIM takes a piece of gumbo from pocket and hands it to JOE.
Coming toward JIM, who is turning gumbo thoughtfully in his hands.
I prefer hilltop, north slope, soil as deep as possible, and a gumbo subsoil.
I have upland, with a poor soil and a gumbo subsoil, with a north and east aspect.
In chicken broth the same quantity of okra pods, used for thickening instead of tomatoes, forms a chicken gumbo soup.
He was forced to trudge through the tangled grass beside it because the soft gumbo soil stuck to his boots in great black lumps, and the patches of dwarf brush through which he must smash made progress laborious.
Except for these, the strip of sloppy black gumbo led straight through the wood, interspersed with gleaming pools.
Many of the soups are excellent; chicken gumbo is particularly good.
The dishes in which the South excel, and which may be called distinctive to that section, are those made of cornmeal, of gumbo or okra, and those seasoned with sassafras powder or twigs.
Ah, what a scream poor Mrs. Mountain gave when Gumbo brought this news from across the James River, and little Fanny sprang crying to her mother's arms!
But fortunately I had no sooner dispatched Gumbo in search of you than I foresaw some chance of this pusillanimity of which you give me proof.
Season with Red pepper and salt, Two tablespoons of fine chopped parsley, One-half teaspoon of thyme, One tablespoon of gumbo or file, Two cups of cooked okra.
Cook for five minutes and then pour the gumbo into a tureen and add three tablespoons of finely chopped parsley.
File, or gumbo powder, is made by the Choxtaw Indians from young sassafras leaves.
The Indians use the sassafras both medicinally and in cookery, and the Creoles quickly discovered this and appreciated it when making their famous gumbo or file.
It was almost a tunnel, for the fronds of the coco palms and the branches of the red-trunked gumbo limbo, and of live oak formed an arch overhead, from which hung long, listless streamers of Spanish moss.
We'll send an Indian down here to paddle you back to Gumbo Key.
III A flaring ray of purple sun came flashing over the sea to Gumbo Key, a warning of the brazen subtropical dawn that was to come.
The girl of the dawn on Gumbo Key was coming toward them, laughing; and the trees and the vine flowers and the sun all seemed to laugh with her.
Here, on the site which he had chosen, wasGumbo Rollins himself, competently in charge.
Gumbo Rollins, puzzled by these seemingly unrelated and irrelevant mouthings.
Not twenty feet from her, close up to where the abutting common met the straggling brick pavement, stood the battered Flyin' Jinny of Gumbo Rollins.
At the precise moment when Mittie May and her proud rider had reached a point just opposite him, Gumbo Rollins elected to set his device in motion and with it the steam-organ which was part and parcel of the thing's organism.
These, for the moment, were his only customers; nevertheless Gumbo Jones Rollins swung a lever and started the machinery.
But so fur ez I heared tell, you an' Gumbo Rollins ain't been so thick ez all this up till now.
Back of a cabin on Plunket's Hill he had private conference with one Gumbo Rollins, by profession a carnival concessionaire and purveyor of amusements in a small way.
At its rise Jeff Poindexter and Gumbo Rollins are discovered sitting side by side on the back step of a cabin in the Plunket's Hill neighborhood.
An' ain't you goin' do mighty well on yore own account out of yore share of the commission frum Gumbo Rollinses' Flyin' Jinny?
In the first decade, the wheezing steam automobile chugged with difficulty over sticky gumbo roads in the Red River Valley, and over scoria trails in the west.
Only a country road of sticky Red River Valley gumbo connected the campus with the city, and, except for the fortunate few who caught rides on horse-drawn vehicles, city students walked to classes.
General Young found it out in time; and mammy said the old negroes on the plantation said that was what killed the woman, the whipping she and Gumbo got for it.
The dogs followed a hot scent from the hut for another hour, and led the men to where they had run Gumbo down.
It laid Gumbo up for a long time, but he got over it.
When they were calling out all the people from the quarters, the General learned that Gumbo had not been seen since Miss Lily was lost.
They have not the ochra, of which the negro cooks make such excellent gumbo soup.
Few nurses guarded the cradle of our little Prince; no courtiers, no faithful retainers saluted it, except our trusty Gumbo and kind Molly, who to be sure loved and admired the little heir of my poverty as loyally as our hearts could desire.
Above all, they admired him on account of the reputation of enormous wealth which Gumbo had made for his master.
And so by the well-known course we reach the Temple, and Gumbo and his master look up with awe at the rebel heads on Temple Bar.
He sought out proper lodgings at the Court end of the town, and fixed on some apartments in Bond Street, where he and Gumbo installed themselves, his horses standing at a neighbouring livery-stable.
Then Gumboand the late groom led the beast away to the stable, having commands to bring him round with Mr. William's horse after breakfast, at the hour when Madam Bernstein's carriages were ordered.
But whenGumbo spoke of the Colonel the young Virginian's spirit was darkened again.
But can Gumbo shut the hall-door upon blue devils, or lay them always in a red sea of claret?
He had remembered it in his possession on that day when he drank so much claret at the White Horse, and Gumbo carried him to bed.
Two such depressions were lined with a coating ofgumbo half an inch thick, which, however, was not mixed with sand or shell.
Joe Ferris suggested mildly that they wait for better weather before plunging again into the sea of gumbo mud, but Roosevelt, who had not come to Dakota to twiddle his thumbs, insisted that they resume their hunt.
Footnote 11: "I never was bothered by gumbo in the Bad Lands.
The Cowboy declared that "the Dickinson road strikes gumbo from the start"; and the Press with fine scorn answered, "This causes a smile to percolate our features.
Next morning the weather was no better, and after a morning's struggle with the wagon along the slippery trail of gumbo mud, they made what would under other circumstances have been a "dry camp.
They all had delightful evenings together at Yule, with charades and punning contests, and music on the piano which Lincoln Lang had brought out through the gumbo against all the protests of nature.
At a little town, Spearfish, I think, after crossing the last eighty or ninety miles of gumbo prairie, we met Seth Bullock.
They found no buffalo that day; and returned to Lang's after dusk, gumbo mud to the eyes.
Here's Beekstein andGumbo Binks been laying around as waste material and the whole house kicking because we've been stuck with two midnight-oilers.
He went to his room at a gallop, upsetting Beekstein andGumbo on his volcanic way upward.
We'll charge twenty-five cents a week to students and we'll make Beekstein and Gumbo disgorge half a plunk each for letting us listen to them.
Gumbo Binks, being consulted as to the qualifications of Beekstein, fell into the same trap.
The Roman thought a moment and, carefully selecting the experts, sent Beekstein, Gumbo Binks, the Red Dog and Poler Fox to the blackboards.
This gumbo will be much improved by stewing with it three or four thin slices of cold boiled ham, in which case omit the salt in the seasoning.
Lay it in the bottom of a tureen, and pour the strained gumbo upon it.
Filet gumbo may be made of any sort of poultry, or of veal, lamb, venison, or kid.
If you cannot conveniently obtain sassafras-powder, stir the gumbo frequently with a stick of sassafras root.
About ten minutes before the Gumbo is ready add— One can of Golden Bantam Corn.
To serve with the Gumbo have a dish of perfectly cooked rice.
Both cognac and rum-bottle were repeatedly tasted, until the strong frame of the Coromantee gave way to the stronger spirit of the alcohol; and, muttering fearful threats in his gumbo jargon, he at length sank unconscious on the floor.
I hope de young misses what concocted of de gumbo done put my name in de pot.
Chicken for gumbo must be fried before you start the soup, if anything so rich and thick as gumbo could be called soup.
Maxton was no longer a place to be shunned; but Mary was to go through with her act before lunch and I for one knew that that gumbo was stewing down mighty thick.
I hear rumors of gumbo for dinner, too, an' I sho' is glad I done turned from grace.
The right kind of gumbo must have tomatoes, okra, potatoes, onions and corn in it, and anyone who has served apprenticeship under Mammy Susan will make the right kind of gumbo.
I'd be afraid to trust the ivy with my weight plus the gumbo I intend to eat.
