The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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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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Giving an account of Robin Hood and his adventure with the King's Foresters. Also telling how his band gathered around him, and of the merry adventure that gained him his good right hand man, the famous Little John.

Not only Robin himself but all the band were outlaws and dwelled apart from other men, yet they were beloved by the country people round about, for no one ever came to jolly Robin for help in time of need and went away again with an empty fist.

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Then Robin Hood stepped quickly to the coverside and cut a good staff of ground oak, straight, without new, and six feet in length, and came back trimming away the tender stems from it, while the stranger waited for him, leaning upon his staff, and whistling as he gazed round about. Robin observed him furtively as he trimmed his staff, measuring him from top to toe from out the corner of his eye, and thought that he had never seen a lustier or a stouter man. Tall was Robin, but taller was the stranger by a head and a neck, for he was seven feet in height. Broad was Robin across the shoulders, but broader was the stranger by twice the breadth of a palm, while he measured at least an ell around the waist.

"Nevertheless," said Robin to himself, "I will baste thy hide right merrily, my good fellow"; then, aloud, "Lo, here is my good staff, lusty and tough. Now wait my coming, an thou darest, and meet me an thou fearest not. Then we will fight until one or the other of us tumble into the stream by dint of blows."

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