Now,we,ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer 's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath
We were willing so Tom got out a sheet of paper with the oath written on it. It swore every boy to stick to the gang and never tell any of its secrets.
If anybody ever did anything wrong to any boy in the band, one of the other boys would be ordered to get even with that person and his family and he would have to do it.