`` You must promise to keep Mose quiet , too . He follows your lead , and if you tell him to stop it he will . If I was big enough , I 'd make you hold your tongues . I ai n't , so we 'll try this way . '' `` Yes , Yes , I 'll see to Mose . Now , bring on a rail , there 's a good fellow . I 've got a horrid cramp in my legs , '' began Sam , thinking he had bought help dearly , yet admiring Ben 's cleverness in making the most of his chance . Ben brought the rail , but , just as he was about to lay it from the main-land to the nearest tussock , he stopped , saying , with the naughty twinkle in his black eyes again , `` One more little thing must be settled first , and then I 'll get you ashore . Promise you wo n't plague the girls either , ` specially Bab and Betty . You pull their hair , and they do n't like it . '' `` Do n't neither ! Would n't touch that Bab for a dollar ; she scratches and bites like a mad cat , '' was Sam 's sulky reply . `` Glad of it ; she can take care of herself . Betty ca n't ; and if you touch one of her pig-tails I 'll up and tell right out how I found you snivelling in the ma ` sh like a great baby . So now ! '' and Ben emphasized his threat with a blow of the suspended rail which splashed the water over poor Sam , quenching his last spark of resistance . `` Stop ! I will ! -- I will ! '' `` True as you live and breathe ! ''
demanded XXXXX , sternly binding him by the most solemn oath he knew .
Bab Ben Betty Mose Sam first main-land pig-tails right tussock