And gumbo Squash wid his bressed grin, His curling har, and his cho-shin- De King ob Hearts will come to de Bal, Let the gals look out for dare feckshuns all!
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
12. As the custom in all families was, each of the boys had a special little servant assigned him: and it was a known fact that George, finding his little wretch of a blackamoor asleep on his master's bed, sat down beside it, and brushed the flies off the child with a feather fan, to the horror of old gumbo, the child's father, who found his young master so engaged, and to the indignation of Madam Esmond, who ordered the young negro off to the proper officer for a whipping.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
Time dragged so heavily that Phil begged Stuart to bring his little rubber-gun-gumbo-shooter he called it.
"The Story of Dago"
Annie Fellows-Johnston