LordoftheFlies

They were going away, back to the tower rock. He could hear feet moving and then someone sniggered. There came again that high, ...

"There was lashings of blood," said Jack, laughing and shuddering, "you should have seen it!" "We'll go hunting every day―" Ralp ...

visible. He put the spear down again. "Heave! Heave! Heave!" A shrill, prolonged cheer. Something boomed up on the red rock, the ...

"There was a ship. Out there. You said you'd keep the fire going and you let it out!" He took a step toward Jack, who turned and ...

The wounded savage moaned again. What else? What next? Ralph fastened his hands round the chewed spear and his hair fell. Someon ...

Piggy began again. "You didn't ought to have let that fire out. You said you'd keep the smoke going―" This from Piggy, and the w ...

There were many things he could do. He could climb a tree; but that was putting all his eggs in one basket. If he were detected, ...

Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh. Jack felt encouraged. He went on scrambling and the laughter ...

There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch. "Think." Most, he was beginn ...

With some positive action before them, a little of the tension died. Ralph said no more, did nothing, stood looking down at the ...

sweat made glistening streaks on his dirty body. The cries were far now, and faint. At last he found what seemed to him the righ ...

Piggy spoke, also dribbling. "Aren't I having none?" Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy b ...

Now the fire was nearer; those volleying shots were great limbs, trunks even, bursting. The fools! The fools! The fire must be a ...

Then at last Maurice broke the silence. He changed the subject to the only one that could bring the majority of them together. " ...

A face. The savage peered into the obscurity beneath the thicket. You could tell that he saw light on this side and on that, but ...

One by one, they halted, and stood watching him. "With the conch. I'm calling a meeting even if we have to go on into the dark. ...

and there was the glitter of water. Then he was down, rolling over and over in the warm sand, crouching with arm to ward off, tr ...

CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the w ...

The officer grinned cheerfully at Ralph. "We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?" Ralph nodded. ...

sun was gone, rolling noisily to rest among dry leaves. At that he began to trot. The beach near the bathing pool was dotted wit ...