contents -

chapters -

1 - how robin hood came to be an outlaw

2 - robin hood and the tinker

3 - the shooting match at Nottingham town

4 - will stutely rescued by his companions

5 - Robin hood turns butcher

6 - little john goes to Nottingham fair

7 - how little john lived at sheriff's

8 - little john and the tanner of Blyth

9 - Robin hood with scarlet

10 - the adventure with midge the miller's son

11 - robin hood and Allan A dale

12 - robin hood seeks the curtal friar

13 - robin hood compasses a marriage

14 - Robin hood aids a sorrowful Knight

15 - sir Richard of the Lea paid his debts

16 - little John turns barefoot friar

17 - robin hood turns beggar

18 - Robin hood shoots before queen Eleanor

19 - the chase of robin hood

20 - Robin hood and the guy of Gisborne

21 - kind Richard comes the Sherwood forest

22 - epilogue

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And the story will last till this 22 chapters

hope you enjoy <3

Author of the book - Howard Pyle

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I just wanted to write something but I don't know what to so I copied it from book hope you don't mind about that :')

...[every chapters will be uploading per week coz m too lazy to write ;) + I don't have time xD poor me •< ]...

...[ okay ! so lets begin the story! ]...

...ch - 1 how robin hood came to be an outlaw...

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.

And now I will tell how it came about that robin hood fell afoul of the law . When robin was a youth of eighteen, the sheriff of Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offer a price of a butt if ale to whosoever should shoot the best shaft in Nottinghamshire. "now , " quoth Robin, " will I go too, for fain would u draw a string for the bright eyes of my lass and a butt of good October brewing." So up he got and took his good stout yes bow and a score or more of broad cloth yard arrows, and started off the Locksley town through Sherwood forest if Nottingham.

On the way, Robin met some foresters , who made fun of him and even challenged him . In the fight one of the Foresters and also one of the king's deer were killed by robin. Meanwhile Robin hood ran through the Greenwood. Gone was all the joy and brightness from everything, for his heart was sick within him, and it was borne in upon his soul that had stain a man. And so he came to dwell in the Greenwood that was to be his home for many years to come , never again to see the happy days with the lad and lasses of sweet locksley town ; for he was outlawed, not only because he had killed a man , but also because he had poached upon his head , as a reward for whoever would bring him to the court of the king . now the sheriff of Nottingham swore he himself would bring this knave Robin hood to justice, and for the two reason: first , because he wanted the two hundred pounds , and the next , because of the Forester that robin hood had killed was a kin to him

So, in all that years, five score or more good shout yeomen gathered about robin hood,and chose him to be their leader and chief Then they vowed that even as they themselves had been despoiled they would despoil their oppressors, whether baron, abbot, knight, or squire, and that from each they would take that which had been wrung from the poor by unjust taxes, or land rents, or in wrongful fines.

But to the poor folk they would give a helping hand in need and trouble, and would return to them that which had been unjustly taken from them. Besides this, they swore never to harm a child nor to wrong a woman. After a while, when the people began to find that no harm was meant to them, but that money or food came in time of want to many a poor family, they came to praise Robin and his merry men. They felt him to be one of themselves.

Up rose Robin Hood one merry morn and up rose all his merry men. Then said Robin, "For fourteen days have we seen no sport, so now I will go abroad to seek adventures forthwith. But tarry ye, my merry men all, here in the greenwood; only see that ye mind well my call. Three blasts upon the bugle horn.

I will blow in my hour of need; then come quickly, for I shall want your aid."

So saying, he strode away through the leafy forest glades until he had come to the verge of Sherwood. There he wandered for a long time. At last he took a road by the forest skirts, a bypath that dipped toward a broad, pebbly stream spanned by a narrow bridge made of a log of wood. As he drew nigh this bridge he saw a tall stranger coming from the other side. Thereupon Robin quickened his pace, as did the stranger likewise, each thinking to cross first. Then they agreed that the better man should be allowed to cross first.

At last, the stranger so thwacked Robin, and that so fairly that he fell heels over head into the water. At this Robin acknowledged the stranger's superiority. Then suddenly a score or two of good stout yeomen, all clad in Lincoln green, burst from out the covert, with merry Will Stutely at their head. They had a fight with the stranger, but though he went down with press of numbers, some of them rubbed cracked crowns before he was overcome.

Then Robin offered the stranger to be his right-hand man. He offered him to share all the booty with him. But the stranger said that he had found him not a good cudgel player. He could be his right hand man only if he could shoot better than him.

In the shooting duel, the stranger acknowledged Robin's superiority. "Then have I gained a right good man this day," quoth Jolly Robin. "What name goest thou by, good fellow?" "Men call me John Little whence I came," answered the stranger.

Then Will Stutely, who loved a good jest, spoke up. "Nay, fair little stranger," said he, "I like not thy name and fain would I have it otherwise. Little art thou indeed, and small of bone and sinew, therefore shalt thou be christened Little John, and I will be thy godfather." Then Robin called his men and a feast was held in the forest. The christening ceremony was held with the help of a mock priest.

And thus it was that Robin Hood became outlawed.

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