The man of the island

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The man of the island

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# U  y# n+ w- ]! Y& nBut 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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/ \' j& B6 x" ]. J* ?9 k1 `1 AI 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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‘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.

, B4 w6 M) @4 d7 A' N‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’
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9 `: w" J7 g$ b6 k- cI 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.’



‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’

3 Y. d) g# @% h7 l‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

$ r. N+ g& V1 S1 e' b- {* ]' O0 U‘Jim,’I told him.
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‘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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! x+ {1 n5 e( r% \4 U8 d6 rI 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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; y- ^; y) r) A‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.

‘Silver?’I asked.

6 p0 U2 x& {6 l( f: k+ g‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’

4 A7 ]3 r, J" }( H) H‘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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9 B7 S. h( i* D4 B( j8 w‘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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2 D0 g/ h; T0 [‘I'm sure he will,’I said.

‘And take me home on your ship?’
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‘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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