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meet with any of them; to which Robin only answered by a
loud laugh.
Presently they reached the forest, when a herd of deer
crossed their path. »How do you like my horned beasts,
Master Sheriff?» inquired Robin. »To tell you the truth»,
replied the Sheriff, »I only ball’ like your company, and wish
myself away from hence».
Then Robin put bis bugle to his mouth, and blew three
blasts, when about a hundred men, with Little John at their
head, immediately surrounded them, and the latter inquired
what his master wanted.
»I have brought the sheriff of Nottingham to dine with
us», said Robin Hood.
»He is welcome», quoth little John, »and 1 hope he will
pay well for his dinner».
They then took the bag of gold from the luckless sheriff,
and spreading a cloak on the grass, they couuted out three
hundred pounds, after which Robin asked him if he would
like some venison for dinner. But the sheriff told him to
let him go, or he would rue the day; so the outlaw desired
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his best compliments to his good dame, and wished him a
pleasant journey home.
Robin Hood had often heard tell of the prowess of a
certain Friar Tuck, who, having been expelled from Fountain
Abbey for his irregular conduct, lived in a rude hut he had
built himself amidst the woods, and who was said to wield a
quarter-staff and let fly an arrow better than any man in
Christendom. So, being anxious to see how far this was true,
Robin set off one morning for Fountain’s Dale, where he
found the friar rambling on the bank of the river Skell. The
friar was a burlv man, at least six feet high, with a broad
chest, and an arm fit for a blacksmith.
The outlaw walked up to him saying, »Carry me over
this water, thou brawny friar, or thou hast not an hour to
live».
The friar tucked up his gown and carried him over
without a word, but when Robin Hood seemed to be going,
he cried out, »Stop, my fine fellow, and carry me over this
water, or it shall breed thee pain».
Robin did so, and then said, »As you are double my
weight, it is fair I should have two rides to your one, so
carry me back again».
The friar again took Robin on his back, but, on reaching
the middle of the stream, he pitched him into the water,
saying, »Now, my fine fellow, let’s see whether you’ll sink
or swim».
Robin swam to the bank, and said, »I see you are
worthy to be my match», and then, summoning his foresters
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