There are all degrees of health in poverty as well as in riches, and Gibbie's health was splendid.

His senses also were marvellously acute.

I have already hinted at his gift for finding things.

His eyes were sharp, quick, and roving, and then they went near the ground, he was such a little fellow.

His success, however, not all these considerations could well account for, and he was regarded as born with a special luck in finding.