The man of the island

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The man of the island

The man of the island
0 h7 g7 H' y9 bBut 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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: f0 m* L+ p# k$ I4 cI 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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3 D* W  A4 L( D2 M: X‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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‘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.

‘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.

, q( B7 V% g0 n5 d- t# ^7 A5 G, D‘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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‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’

‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

0 L. \  C8 v# k% l$ L. F‘Jim,’I told him.
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! z' u  ]7 y2 Q- h7 s0 r‘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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I 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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& G; u+ S0 m0 ?4 O‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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% C- B2 U! K) t‘Silver?’I asked.
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5 f7 F% D& E' o7 E" @" W) b+ u‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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1 K/ I' ~" {* \8 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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5 X* p) H! B9 V3 e‘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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6 Z4 p4 }' ?/ z‘I'm sure he will,’I said.

‘And take me home on your ship?’
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2 e9 g& K- A- X' Y& j' m‘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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