Now then!" and Ben's face grew stern with his remembered wrongs as he grimly eyed his discomfited foe.
"I'll promise fast enough if you won't tell anyone about this," answered Sam, surveying himself and his surroundings with great disgust.
"I shall do as I like about that." "Then I won't promise a thing! I'm not going to have the whole school laughing at me," protested Sam, who hated to be ridiculed even more than Ben did.
"Very well; good-night!" and Ben walked off with his hands in his pockets as coolly as if the bog was Sam's favorite retreat.
"Hold on, don't be in such a hurry!" shouted Sam, seeing little hope of rescue if he let this chance go.
"All right!" and back came Ben, ready for further negotiations.
"I'll promise not to plague you, if you'll promise not to tell on me.
Is that what you want ?" "Now I come to think of it, there is one thing more.

I like to make a good bargain when I begin," said Ben, with a shrewd air.

"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.