The man of the island

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The man of the island

5 F6 z$ |# R# }2 L6 tThe man of the island
9 C- ^% }( p! d, }  rBut 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.



( n' P. j/ ^5 i8 zI 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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+ S5 ]2 a( Z. O" a2 s0 e. g+ B‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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( o- G: ^5 C' n! M8 b) S. {‘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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! J, S7 S7 H# g6 B' r% Z‘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.
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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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‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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" A! B: k% p7 y0 X. W  a‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

1 d4 u0 z1 l: m‘Jim,’I told him.
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! D6 e" O& ~+ ]" _- I‘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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; k( d9 E0 C$ ]2 q! S1 H! _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.
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0 A. @% H- \/ p' H# \5 [) p‘Silver?’I asked.

‘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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; S5 Q, a4 ~0 S‘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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  I5 Z( g# k/ K& z# q3 ?‘I'm sure he will,’I said.
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‘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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