The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Table of Contents

PREFACE

FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE READER

How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw

Robin Hood and the Tinker

The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town

Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions

Robin Hood Turns Butcher

Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair

How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's

Little John and the Tanner of Blyth

Robin Hood and Will Scarlet

The Adventure with Midge the Miller's Son

Robin Hood and Allan a Dale

Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar

Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage

Robin Hood Aids a Sorrowful Knight

How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts

Little John Turns Barefoot Friar

Robin Hood Turns Beggar

Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor

The Chase of Robin Hood

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne

King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest

Epilogue

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Howard Pyle

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"Nay, good friend," said Robin Hood, "bottle thine anger, for the name fitteth thee well. Little John shall thou be called henceforth, and Little John shall it be. So come, my merry men, we will prepare a christening feast for this fair infant."

So turning their backs upon the stream, they plunged into the forest once more, through which they traced their steps till they reached the spot where they dwelled in the depths of the woodland. There had they built huts of bark and branches of trees, and made couches of sweet rushes spread over with skins of fallow deer. Here stood a great oak tree with branches spreading broadly around, beneath which was a seat of green moss where Robin Hood was wont to sit at feast and at merrymaking with his stout men about him. Here they found the rest of the band, some of whom had come in with a brace of fat does. Then they all built great fires and after a time roasted the does and broached a barrel of humming ale. Then when the feast was ready they all sat down, but Robin placed Little John at his right hand, for he was henceforth to be the second in the band.

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