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Läsebok. N:o 62.
by a blast of his bugle, he told the friar he was Robin Hood,
and asked him to join his band.
»lf there’s an archer amongst you that can beat me at
the long-bow, I’ll be your man», quoth Friar Tuck. Then,
pointing to a hawk on the wing, he added, »I’ll kill it, and
he who can strike it again before it falls, will be the better
man of the two».
Little John accepted the challenge. The shafts flew off,
and when the dead bird was picked up, it was found that the
friar’s arrow had pinioned the hawks wings to his sides, and
that Little John’s had transfixed it from breast to back.
So Friar Tuck owned himself outdone and joined Robin’s
merry-men.
The whole country now rang with Robin Hood’s lawless
pranks, when one morning six priests passed through
Sherwood Forest, on richly caparisoned horses. Thinking that a
good prize was in the wind, the outlaws bid them halt, and
Friar Tuck seized the bridle of the one whom he judged to
be the abbot, and bade him pay the toll; the abbot got down
and gave him a cuff that made his ears tingle, and flinging
him on his knees, plucked him by the beard.
Quoth Friar Tuck, »We don’t take that sort of coin».
»But we are going on a message from King Richard», said
the abbot.
Then Robin bade the friar desist, saying, »God save the
King, and confound all his foes».
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»You are a noble fellow, quoth the abbot »and if you
and your men will give up this lawless life and become my
archers, you shall have the king’s pardon.
He then opened his gown, and Robin Hood and his
archers. guessing at once that Richard himself stood before
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them, bent their knees to their liege lord crying, »Long live
King Richard.
So Robin Hood accompanied the King to London,
followed by fifty of his most faithful adherents, and here he
assumed the title of Earl of Huntingdon. But he soon grew
tired of the confinement of the court, and asked permission
to revisit the woods. The king granted him seven days; but
when once he breathed the pure air of Sherwood again, he
could not tear himself away; and when, from old habit, he
sounded his bugle, he was surprised to see the signal
answered by fourscore youths. Little John soon joined him,
and he again became the leader of a band.
King Richard was so enraged on hearing this. that he
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sent two hundred soldiers to reduce the rebel, and a desperate
fight took place on a plain in the forest, when Robin Hood
was wounded by an arrow, and removed to Kirkley’s Nunnery,
where the treacherous prioress suffered him to bleed to death.
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