LordoftheFlies

"Got to? Who says?" Ralph's temper blazed out. "I say! You voted for me for chief. Didn't you hear the conch? You played a dirty ...

"Noticed what?" "Well. They're frightened." He rolled over and peered into Jack's fierce, dirty face. "I mean the way things are ...

"Come on then―" "Come on―" Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance. "You come on and se ...

Jack drew up his legs, clasped his knees, and frowned in an effort to attain clarity. "All the same―in the forest. I mean when y ...

The shivering, silvery, unreal laughter of the savages sprayed out and echoed away. A gust of rage shook Ralph. His voice cracke ...

"So long as your hunters remember the fire―" "You and your fire!" The two boys trotted down the beach, and, turning at the water ...

Their spears were taken from them. "Tie them up!" Ralph cried out hopelessly against the black and green mask. "Jack!" "Go on. T ...

"We could steal up on one―paint our faces so they wouldn't see―perhaps surround them and then―" Indignation took away Ralph's co ...

"Let me speak." He was standing in the dust of the fight, and as the tribe saw his intention the shrill cheer changed to a stead ...

But when they reached the shelters Simon was not to be seen. Ralph put his head in the hole, withdrew it, and turned to Jack. "H ...

Now Jack was yelling too and Ralph could no longer make himself heard. Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a s ...

and walked into the forest with an air of purpose. He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had ...

Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph's ribs, then sheared ...

Simon paused. He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm tha ...

"What d'you mean by it, eh?" said the chief fiercely. "What d'you mean by coming with spears? What d'you mean by not joining my ...

CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. T ...

CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters Ralph lay in a covert, wondering about his wounds. The bruised flesh was inches in diameter ov ...

stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused. Ever since then he ...

the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes. They would be intent. Another figure, an unrecognizable one, app ...

Henry was a bit of a leader this afternoon, because the other two were Percival and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island. Per ...