The man of the island

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The man of the island

The man of the island
; I+ ]+ l  h( x: sBut 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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0 R2 }1 y; U! Z8 k% M" K: ?$ c‘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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+ e. L  H; o! q7 A0 m' a" _‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.
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‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’

7 w. @7 @1 i/ e  m6 t  uI 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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‘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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  F( y; ]" ~! E‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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" u( `! R8 Z' }8 Q/ v‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.
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$ P' ?! K; J5 q; 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?’



% }3 \' w3 L* ^" ~6 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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‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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3 A6 B1 p# I) x' V& T* Q- [‘Silver?’I asked.
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$ q# M% ^, W6 A2 _1 ]" e9 Z$ B‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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‘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.

% ]! f/ V9 N8 z6 _! ~‘And take me home on your ship?’

. e9 f# G5 y) ?3 @2 d% u‘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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