The man of the island

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The man of the island

% S: `0 {  c4 m+ `( VThe man of the island
7 v  ^& @1 ]$ V% h  z9 DBut almost immediately I ran intoInteractive whiteboard a new danger.As I ran, I heard some small stones falling from the side of a steep hill. I stopped to look round, and saw a figure jump quickly behind a tree.Frightened, I turned back towards the boats, but the figure appeared again and moved with the speedof an animal. But it was a man, I knew that now.
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; X6 Q, @, `: s! t9 U' j3 A, H9 {. JI remembered I had a pistol if I needed it, and turned back towards this man of the island. He was hiding behind another tree but stepped out to meet me.
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! V4 F. `8 S, p# @, z7 a1 @‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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# n, n- G9 P7 [1 V! ?‘Ben Gunn ,’he answered, and his voice sounded rough andstrange .His skin was burnt nearly#x black by the sun and his clothes were made from pieces of a ship's sail.‘Poor Ben Gunn,’he went on.‘Alone for three years.’
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‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.

* U* J. S; t+ g9 G' v‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’

' k% c) e$ a( q# S$ X$ H! ]I had heard the word before, and knew it meant a cruel pun－ishment often used by pirates－leaving a man alone on some distant, empty island.

‘Marooned three years, he continued,‘ living on wild goats and fish. But I'm desperate for real English food. You don't have a piece of cheese, do you? Many nights I've dreamed of cheese.’



7 V9 M% |% t9 K% D  ]* h' ~+ S% y‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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  n: a( |6 i0 h( s3 p( S+ Y. d0 q. t‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

" ]0 C; y3 }7 E& x& s! S‘Jim,’I told him.

‘Well, Jim,’he said, looking around and lowering his voice to a whisper, ‘I'm rich.’I was now sure the poor man was crazy ,but he repeated his words.‘Rich, I say! Now ,DVD Ripper,Jim ,that isn't Flint's ship, is it?’
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* a/ B6 V6 z6 D% R4 JI began to think that I had found a friend, and I answered him at once.‘It's not Flint's ship. Flint is dead, but there are some of Flint's men aboard, and that's bad news for us.’
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1 ~* v7 S3 i+ Q( P+ A‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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‘Silver?’I asked.
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‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’

‘He's the cook, and their leader ,too.’ And I told him the whole story of our voyage, and the danger we were now in.
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‘You're in trouble, Jim,’he said when I'd finishedInteractive whiteboard.‘Well, Ben Gunn will help you. Will your squire be generous if I do, do you think? I don't want him to give me a job, but will he give me one thousand pounds out of money that's really mine?’
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‘I'm sure he will,’I said.

‘And take me home on your ship?’

5 P) y9 E- o! @4 n‘If we can escape from the others,’I told him#x,‘we'll need your help to get the ship home.’
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