If the littluns climb back on the twister again they'll only fall off in a sec. So they might as well sit on the ground and listen. No, you have doctors for everything, even the inside of your mind. You don't really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life, said Piggy expansively, is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be travelling to Mars and back. I know there isn't no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean but I kow there isn't no fear, either.
A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys. Piggy ducked his head and went on hastily.
So let's hear from that littlun who talked about a beast and perhaps we can show him how silly he is.