"Well, you'll have to come out and help me get my car out of the mud or none of us will get away."
"You're bogged?"
"Up to the hubs. There's been so much rain that the gully road is now knee-deep in mud."
"All right. We'll come and get you out. How many men do you want?"
"It'll take the whole crowd of us."
"No, it won't. We're not goin' to leave these kids here alone. Joe, here, can stay and watch 'em."
"They're tied, ain't they?"
"What of it? I'm not trustin' to no ropes. Somebody's got to stay and keep an eye on them."
"I'll stay," grumbled the man addressed as Joe.
"I don't care who stays," snapped Dan. "If you don't come out and help drag that car out of the mud it'll be in so deep we'll never get it out. Come on."