IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades. Right merrily they dwelled within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither care nor want, but passing the time in merry games of archery or bouts of cudgel play, living upon the...

I vow and declare that if the shot he fired had cracked the sky he could not have been more frightened. The great black bird gave a yell so terrible that it curdled the very blood in his veins and made his hair stand upon end. Away it flew like a flash-a bird no longer, but a great, black demon, smoking and smelling most horribly of brimstone, and when the soldier gathered his wits, there lay the feather cap and a little, round, black stone upon the ground. "Well," said the soldier, "it is little wonder that the old man had no liking to shoot at such game as that." And thereupon he popped the...

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...

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley that you would not know them but for the names tagged to them. Here is a stout, lusty fellow with a quick temper, yet none...

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