"Some scout or other cut his initials here, that's all.

I don't see any use in keeping him; he isn't so very sociable." "Lots of times you crawl in your shell and aren't so sociable, either," Pee-wee shot back at him.

"I say let's keep him for a souvenir." "We'll have a regular Bronx Park Zoo here pretty soon," a scout said.
"We'll have to give him a name just like Asbestos." Tom set the turtle on the ground and everybody waited silently.

But the turtle was not to be beguiled out of his stronghold by any such strategy.

He remained as motionless as a stone.