The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Table of Contents

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

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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Then all shouted with laughter as they saw the good brown ale stream over Little John's beard and trickle from his nose and chin, while his eyes blinked with the smart of it. At first he was of a mind to be angry but found he could not, because the others were so merry; so he, too, laughed with the rest. Then Robin took this sweet, pretty babe, clothed him all anew from top to toe in Lincoln green, and gave him a good stout bow, and so made him a member of the merry band.

And thus it was that Robin Hood became outlawed; thus a band of merry companions gathered about him, and thus he gained his right-hand man, Little John; and so the prologue ends. And now I will tell how the Sheriff of Nottingham three times sought to take Robin Hood, and how he failed each time.

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