The man of the island

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The man of the island

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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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I 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.

‘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.’



‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.
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‘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.

% y1 Y% ?# V0 v$ V‘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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% `6 [4 V$ r, V5 `2 m2 k8 Q‘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.
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; y) Y3 i1 b6 m$ {8 \8 m6 B; J‘Jim,’I told him.
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; H0 e: }/ T+ g! C/ F8 B8 W‘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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: h" I2 }  M: v' y9 i, c‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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‘Silver?’I asked.

‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’
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/ w% @9 z6 m- z+ 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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: U% ?5 g. @: ?# k6 t‘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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5 v" ?# M% [1 [( h6 P$ J+ h( c‘I'm sure he will,’I said.
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5 j8 Z' a' W4 U‘And take me home on your ship?’
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; t4 B* r; L) F‘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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