The man of the island

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The man of the island

The man of the island
1 O: {- h  h# V5 S4 {, iBut 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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# I* h. v2 v# @4 h7 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.



% ]* J8 d8 K. 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.
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# w/ X5 _4 i# o‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’
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. D7 `  {: t( U2 X# m) P( v! NI 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.

  }# g& n# Y+ E; F" I# ~‘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.’
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) ], h! e: k5 f& E2 K" W0 m‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

# q; @. D0 R6 a" V; D9 l‘Jim,’I told him.

$ O; ]' m2 }" k6 U+ S! U# V2 P‘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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! t8 A  i7 Y# a5 O7 P. a& ]‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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. s* V4 r7 ]; B  S7 ?! {‘Silver?’I asked.

‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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! Q- w+ A; H6 [‘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.



. S- j3 U( @* x‘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.
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‘And take me home on your ship?’

‘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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