The man of the island

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The man of the island
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The man of the island
+ `" [+ B, m  w$ @0 J. ]0 |5 h: ?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.

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5 b8 [/ Y* S! M8 O, g# k4 N  U& eI 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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‘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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+ l7 ?& @, v+ l‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’

$ q( J2 ~: w' u- q% D$ CI 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.

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

‘Jim,’I told him.
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2 t6 X( T7 g4 C‘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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  N$ ?" [  m. B  tI 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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8 t: B4 V& P" j‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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; i5 t% I: X. k‘Silver?’I asked.
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6 U) O! ^4 D7 l4 w‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’

* ~, f; c3 O  U' |$ F6 Z‘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.



- K; L% J! ?# P( t1 t8 r% x$ z4 {‘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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