LordoftheFlies

CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses Piggy eyed the advancing figure carefully. Nowadays he sometimes found that he saw more cl ...

"Whee-aa-oo!" Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph. But they left at last. The way to the top ...

"What you say?" Ralph spoke up. "Simon." Piggy said nothing but nodded, solemnly. They continued to sit, gazing with impaired si ...

mirage. "That's a reef. A coral reef. I've seen pictures like that." The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying p ...

"Piggy." "Uh?" "That was Simon." "You said that before." "Piggy." "Uh?" "That was murder." "You stop it!" said Piggy, shrilly. " ...

Ralph looked down the other way where there was no reef. "Steeper," said Jack. Ralph made a cupping gesture. "That bit of forest ...

"P'raps he was only pretending―" Piggy's voice trailed off at the sight of Ralph's face. "You were outside. Outside the circle. ...

"Green candles," said Jack contemptuously. "We can't eat them. Come on." They were in the beginnings of the thick forest, plonki ...

Piggy shook his head. "Not us till last. They never noticed in the dark. Anyway you said I was only on the outside." "So was I," ...

He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fie ...

"―we got lost last night." Ralph examined his toes. "You got lost after the..." Piggy cleaned his lens. "After the feast," said ...

CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded. There were differences b ...

The voice rang out sharply from on high, where the diminishing crags were balanced one on another. "Halt! Who goes there?" "Roge ...

"Yes. There are pigs on the island." All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepe ...

loose tooth. His gaze settled on the top of the distant mountain and Robert changed the unspoken subject. "He's going to beat Wi ...

"Look―" "And he won't be interrupted: Except by me." Jack was on his feet. "We'll have rules!" he cried excitedly. "Lots of rule ...

The chief was vague but earnest. "They will. They'll try to spoil things we do. So the watchers at the gate must be careful. And ...

"Nobody knows where we are," said Piggy. He was paler than before and breathless. "Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and ...

"I expect the beast disguised itself." "Perhaps," said the chief. A theological speculation presented itself. "We'd better keep ...

"Swallows and Amazons―" "Coral Island―" Ralph waved the conch. "This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come ...