Simon realizes that Ralph is thinking about . He tells Ralph that he knows that he will make it back all right. Ralph thinks Simon is batty, or , and asks him sarcastically if he has a in his pocket.
On their way to the mountain, the boys for a pig. gets his first experience at hunting, and he enjoys it. He is able to get his into the pig. is injured slightly by the boar because he waited too long to put his spear into him. Simon tells Jack to suck on the to make it better.
After this the boys get excited and start to they are hunting a pig. They use as the pig. The get too involved and Robert ends up getting hurt. Jack and Ralph play it off as if it were nothing but a . Jack says next time they should have a littlun play the .
It is getting late, and Ralph still wants to make it to the to restart the . Maurice suggests that they should get back to . volunteers to go alone to Piggy and tell him that the rest won’t be back until later.
Jack and Ralph keep pushing each other to go up the mountain in the . The rest of the boys all leave Jack, Ralph, and by themselves. They are not scared, they say, but rather .
Jack goes up the mountain alone after Ralph implied that he was too to do so. He later comes down saying he something. Roger scares the two of them when he suggests it is a . The three of them go up to have a look and they see the man with the . The three of them run, leaving their spears on the mountain.