_got_ to do it.  Don't I tell you it's in the books?  Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?” “Oh, that's all very fine to _say_, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them?--that's the thing I want to get at.  Now, what do you reckon it is?” “Well, I don't know.  But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead.” “Now, that's something _like_.  That'll answer.  Why couldn't you said that before?  We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they'll be, too--eating up everything, and always trying to get loose.” “How you talk, Ben Rogers.  How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?” “A guard!  Well, that _is_ good.  So somebody's got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them.  I think that's foolishness. W