The man of the island

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The man of the island

The man of the island
5 z5 K7 D/ p; j- O2 ?; m  v3 N# vBut 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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- w8 v: d3 u3 I( S( a: `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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1 U; a" X9 v/ K‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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3 |! @* G; y: [' W‘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.’

- V* ?0 ]% U* H9 M, jI 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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4 D  K5 d' B1 i‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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% L) T  U7 U7 c+ ?‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.

# @* P: L* G+ _) n) W( I9 a8 S4 u‘Jim,’I told him.
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‘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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5 l1 U- b" a( D8 T! n0 E3 T. sI 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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  T. N& I; o; }& t* q7 O* M$ n* M‘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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1 ]  {! s" g% \, O6 ]% ?! T1 \‘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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" R: C, t5 @# P" I" B/ E‘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.

‘And take me home on your ship?’

) h3 V& ~3 Z" K9 f' ]- p‘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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