The man of the island

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The man of the island
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. S' [% o3 T; |2 y% Y5 ?2 dThe man of the island
) S& r: ^  l% R: M: E- q4 L. MBut 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.



I 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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) _- Y, N: B# h3 f0 T% `" W  v‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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" Y0 o  A$ |* O7 N‘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.’



‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.
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, U8 ^% i# R0 k7 f% \) w  Z& U‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’

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.

+ v! T; j! w" I: G/ N! ^‘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.’
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0 V8 r$ s: T: b# c5 i‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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, g9 I5 O4 O  r0 J8 @8 j# i! [; k2 Y‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

‘Jim,’I told him.

/ _; w1 }- t4 U0 j‘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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, v8 H0 Q; ^' F; B3 m8 DI 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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‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.

6 n4 e- y5 F0 a- J$ t‘Silver?’I asked.

, g  q! ?+ Q1 u: C& q‘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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: w' x$ y) O2 }+ a‘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.

  j* R" {" _. ?- n9 x, @‘And take me home on your ship?’
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4 @& r1 G! ~; m. v‘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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