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   The boys get their water from a river that runs through the island.  In chapter 5, page 91 in my edition, Ralph is speaking at the assembly after the fire has been left and extinguised,  Golding writes:

   We decide things.  But they don't get done.  We were going to have water brought from the stream and left in those coconut shells under fresh leaves.  So it was, for a few days.  No there's no water.  The shells are dry.  People drink from the river.

    

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   Posted by ladyvols1 on Sunday February 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM