"They'll get him back for the main and simple reason we can't stay here all day, can we?
And they'd find us anyhow, if we tried to.

There's so many of 'em against just us two, they can run in and touch him soon as they get up to us--and then HE'LL be after us again and--" "Listen here!" Sam interrupted.

"Why can't we put some REAL bonds on him?
We could put bonds on his wrists and around his legs--we could put 'em all over him, easy as nothin'.

Then we could gag him--" "No, we can't," said Penrod.

"We can't, for the main and simple reason we haven't got any rope or anything to make the bonds with, have we?
I wish we had some o' that stuff they give sick people.