Lord of the Flies Audiobook - Chapter 7 - Shadows & Tall Trees

Chapter seven shadows and tall trees the pig run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it if you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the returned if you

could forget how done and unvisited or the furni coverts on either side then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while the Sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island Ralph passed a message forward to Jack and when they

next came to fruit the whole party stopped and ate sitting Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day he pulled distastefully at his gray shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it sitting under what seemed an unusual heat even for this island Ralph planned this toilet he would like

to have a pair of scissors and cut his hair he flung the mass back cut his filthy hair right back to half an inch he would like to have a bath a proper wallow with soap he passed this tongue experimentally over his teeth and decided that a toothbrush would come in handy too then there were his nails

Ralph turned his hand over and examined them they were bitten down to the quick though he could not remember when he had restarted this habit nor any time when he had indulged it be sucking my thumb next he looked around furtively apparently no one had heard the hunter SOT stuffing themselves with this easy

meal trying to convince themselves that they had gotten sufficient kick out of the bananas and that other olive gray jelly like fruit with the memory of his sometime clean self as a standard ralph looked them over they were dirty not with a spectacular dirt of boys who had fallen in the mud or been brought down