LordoftheFlies

"The rest of you can go to sleep as soon as the sun sets. But us three, Maurice, Roger and me, we've got work to do. We'll leave ...

the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly. "He wants to know what you're going to do about the snake-thing." R ...

Eric pushed back his hair. "They'd be better than―" He would not name people and Sam finished the sentence for him by nodding al ...

Laughing, Ralph looked for confirmation round the ring of faces. The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones ...

"Up there it was small. But this has got to be a big one." Ralph carried a fragment to the fire and watched the smoke that drift ...

"But I tell you there isn't a beast!" The assembly was silent. Ralph lifted the conch again and his good humor came back as he t ...

"Oh, yes. So we've got to make smoke; and more smoke―" "But we can't keep it going! Look at that!" The fire was dying on them. " ...

He went on in the silence, borne on his triumph. "There's another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the i ...

"All right?" "S'pose so." At length, save for an occasional rustle, the shelter was silent. An oblong of blackness relieved with ...

He sighed, bent, and laced up his shoes. The noise of the errant assembly faded up the mountain. Then, with the martyred express ...

"Hey―Eric!" Presently all was quiet again. Piggy spoke softly to Ralph. "We got to get out of this." "What d'you mean?" "Get res ...

Jack grinned back. "Not for the two of us." Together, joined in an effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep Of the ...

Ralph continued to snigger though his chest hurt. His twitchings exhausted him till he lay, breathless and woebegone, waiting fo ...

"You make a bow and spin the arrow," said Roger. He rubbed his hands in mime. "Psss. Psss." A little air was moving over the mou ...

A voice whispered horribly outside. "Piggy―Piggy―" "It's come!" gasped Piggy. "It's real!" He clung to Ralph and reached to get ...

"My specs!" howled Piggy. "Give me my specs!" Ralph stood away from the pile and put the glasses into Piggy's groping hands. His ...

"There wasn't any smoke. Only flame." Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knee ...

"All you littluns, go to sleep. We've had a fight with the others. Now go to sleep." Samneric came close and peered at Ralph. "A ...

Ralph moved suddenly in the dark; but then he heard Eric working his mouth. "What's the matter?" "Jus' a tooth loose." Piggy dre ...

They assented. Piggy opened his mouth to speak, caught Jack's eye and shut it again. Jack held out his hands for the conch and s ...