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60
Läsebok. N:o 62.
One morning, as Robin Hood sat by the wayside,
trimming his bow and arrows, there röde by a butcher with a
basket of meat, hastening to market. After bidding him
good morrow, Robin asked him what he would take for the
horse and the basket; the butcher, somewhat surprised,
answered he would uot sell them for less than four silver marks.
»Do but throw your greasy frock into the bargain», said
Robin, »and here’s the money».
Delighted at having concluded so good a bargain, the
butcher lost no time in dismounting and throwing off his
smock-frock, which the outlaw instantly put over his clothes,
and then galloped away to Nottingham.
On reaching the town, Robin Hood put up his horse at
an inn, and then went into the market, and uncovering his
basket, began to sell its contents about fifty times cheaper
than all the other butchers, for Robin Hood neither knew
nor cared about the price usually paid for meat, and it amused
hirn vastly to see his stall surrounded by customers. The
other butchers could not at first understand why everybody
flocked to purchase his goods, while their own stalls were
quite deserted; but when they heard that he had sold a leg
of pork for a shilling, they consulted together, and agreed
that he must be some rich man’s son who was after a frolic,
or else a downright madman, and that they had better try
and learn something more about him, or else he would ruin
their business. So when the market was over, one of them
invited Robin Hood to dine with their company. The sheriff
of Nottingham presided at the head of the table, while at the
other end sat the innkeeper. The outlaw played his part as
well as the rest of them, and, when the dishes were removed,
he called for more wine, telling them all to drink as much
as they could carry, and he would pay the reckoning.
The sheriff then turned to Robin Hood, and asked him
whether he had any horned beasts to sell; for he was a miser,
and hoped to profit by the new butcher’s want of experience,
and drive a good bargain with him. Robin Hood replied he
had some two or three hundred; whereupon the sheriff said,
that, as he wanted a few head of cattle, he should like to
ride over and look at them that very day. So Robin Hood
flung down a handful of silver on the table, by way of
farewell to his astonished companions, and set out for Sherwood
Forest with the sheriff, who had mounted his palfrey, and
provided himself with a bag of gold for his purchases. The
outlaw was so full of jokes and merriment as they went along,
that the sheriff thought he had never fallen in with a
plea-santer fellow. On a sudden, however, the sheriff recollected
that the woods were infested by Robin Hood and his band,
and he said to his companion, he hoped they should not
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