The man of the island

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The man of the island
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But 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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+ K" \) o8 {6 M' X# O( WI 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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6 F8 B3 |  t7 M/ l3 Z: U( j‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.

‘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.
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  G9 X$ |2 k* s& Y$ {! g‘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.
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, `7 T4 |6 @$ I1 ^8 }‘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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! ]/ ~) ^( N; h8 _$ o3 v‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

‘Jim,’I told him.
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6 `  x3 _3 n' j  U, @‘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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( r, U* h& [, w( d) \3 fI 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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! m8 [9 ~7 k/ m' P‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.

‘Silver?’I asked.
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‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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& `4 a  k  }  G‘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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# W6 t4 R: _8 h& |9 B1 b‘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?’



5 U, k/ B+ {+ d) K/ X3 w‘I'm sure he will,’I said.
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‘And take me home on your ship?’
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/ k3 Z  V; ]* H, t‘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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