5 学会独自生活
Chapter 5 Learning to live alone
I still needed a lot of things. 'Well, ' I said, 'I'm going to have to make them. '
So, every day, I worked. First of all, I wanted to make my cave bigger.
I carried out stone from the cave, and after many day's hard work, I had a large cave in the side of the hill. Then I needed a table and a chair, and that was my next job.
I had to work on them for a long time. I also wanted to make places to put all my food, and all my tools and guns.
But every time I wanted a piece of wood, I had to cut down a tree. It was long, slow, difficult work, and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools.
There was no hurry. I had all the time in the world. I also went out every day, and I always had my gun with me.
Sometimes I killed a wild animal, and then I had meat to eat. But when it got dark, I had to go to bed because I had no light.
I couldn't read or write because I couldn't see. For a long time, I didn't know what to do.
But in the end, I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light. The weather on my island was usually very hot, and there were often storms and heavy rain.
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