The man of the island

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The man of the island

The man of the island
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.



- e$ N5 `! Q% |6 R8 w! gI 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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' x3 \) G0 M2 l; \4 c, q  n‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.

  y" S  u  z- i/ I7 |, T& D8 C* M, |‘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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‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’
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1 r5 ~+ D4 z$ Z3 n) Y4 V; HI 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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  s* c2 k  C6 ~- ?! ]‘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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3 A# t9 }( X* \" _‘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.

‘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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‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.

- P1 C2 e  ]' G( C6 K5 A$ z‘Silver?’I asked.

‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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' P5 S& j  g0 |0 p‘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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8 x1 h' p( A: [# 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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9 A6 M4 n) M- n- y% v0 i‘I'm sure he will,’I said.
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, V/ b- y2 O3 a7 ^9 v$ i‘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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