LordoftheFlies

CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock In the short chill of dawn the four boys gathered round the black smudge where the fire had been, whi ...

"I said before we'll be rescued sometime. We've just got to wait, that's all." Daring, indignant, Piggy took the conch. "That's ...

"That's them," said Piggy. "They blinded me. See? That's Jack Merridew. You call an assembly, Ralph, we got to decide what to do ...

then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was s ...

He paused lamely as the curtain flickered in his brain. Piggy held out his hands for the conch. "What you goin' to do, Ralph? Th ...

The twins giggled together. "We wanted smoke―" "Now look―!" A pall stretched for miles away from the island. All the boys except ...

"I'm going to him with this conch in my hands. I'm going to hold it out. Look, I'm goin' to say, you're stronger than I am and y ...

"How could I," cried Piggy indignantly, "all by myself? They waited for two minutes, then they fell in the sea; they went into t ...

Ralph put the conch back on the shining log. "We better eat and then get ready." They made their way to the devastated fruit tre ...

"Snakes! Snakes! Look at the snakes!" In the west, and unheeded, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea. Their faces were ...

"All the same―" Ralph shouted. "No paint!" He tried to remember. "Smoke," he said, "we want smoke." He turned on the twins fierc ...

CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid ear ...

They set off along the beach in formation. Ralph went first, limping a little, his spear carried over one shoulder. He saw thing ...

himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that ...

"What are we hiding for?" He stepped through the screen of grass on to the little open space that led to the narrow neck. "You t ...

"I said have you got any water? I'm thirsty." Ralph withdrew his attention from the shelter and realized Jack with a start. "Oh, ...

"You mind out―see?" At length Ralph took his lips away and paused to get his breath back. His first words were a gasp, but audib ...

"Except the hunters. Well, the littluns are―" He gesticulated, sought for a word. "They're hopeless. The older ones aren't much ...

"Where's Jack?" The group of boys stirred and consulted. A painted face spoke with the voice of Robert. "He's hunting. And he sa ...

"I thought I might." Some hidden passion vibrated in Ralph's voice. "But you haven't yet." His invitation might have passed as c ...