[Piggy was piling up the primary urchins in wiggling, squealing piles]

[He watched the teacher's finger crook a signal for the note to be brought forward]

[... fought boys who were three classes above him ... whipped groups of boys of assorted sizes]

[Over his mother's shoulders Piggy saw the hired girl giggle]

[Her son ate rapidly in silence]

[His cleanliness pleased his mother and she boasted of it to the mothers of other boys]

[A little maid in a black-and-red check]

[Piggy sat on the front porch, and reviewed the entire affair]

[It began when his Heart's Desire had fluttered into his autograph album]

[At this important bit of repartee]