Robin Hood

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Henry Gilbert. Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

HOW ROBIN BECAME AN OUTLAW

CHAPTER II

HOW LITTLE JOHN STOLE THE FORESTER’S DINNER, AND OF HIS MEETING WITH ROBIN HOOD

CHAPTER III

HOW ROBIN HOOD MET FATHER TUCK

CHAPTER IV

HOW BY THE HELP OF ROBIN HOOD AND JACK, SON OF WILKIN, ALAN-A-DALE WAS WED TO THE LADY ALICE

CHAPTER V

HOW ROBIN HOOD SLEW THE SHERIFF

CHAPTER VI

KING RICHARD MEETS ROBIN

CHAPTER VII

THE BURNING OF EVIL HOLD

CHAPTER VIII

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD

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Henry Gilbert

Published by Good Press, 2021

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With a cry, Hubert sank on one knee to the ground, the shaft jutting from his breast. Feebly he tried to pluck it forth, but his life was already gone. He fell over on his side, dead. At the same time the place seemed full of great bees. First one man dropped his whip, spun round with his hands upon a bolt in his side, and then fell. Another sank to the ground without a murmur; a second leaped in the air like a shot rabbit; and the other, with one arm pinned to his side by an arrow, ran across the field, swaying this way and that until he dropped in a furrow and lay still.

There were four who remained untouched, but filled with such consternation were they that they broke and fled in all directions. So dazed was one that he came flying up the field path at the head of which Robin still kneeled, terrible in his wrath, with his last bolt notched upon his string. The fellow ran with open arms, terror in his eyes, thinking not at all of whither he was going.

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