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 … Read the rest
Category: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – How Little John Lived at the Sheriff’s
THUS LITTLE JOHN entered into the Sheriff’s service and found the life he led there easy enough, for the Sheriff made him his right-hand man and held him in great favor. He sat nigh the Sheriff at meat, and he … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Epilogue
THUS END the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; for, in spite of his promise, it was many a year ere he saw Sherwood again.
After a year or two at court Little John came back to Nottinghamshire, where he lived … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair
SPRING HAD GONE since the Sheriff’s feast in Sherwood, and summer also, and the mellow month of October had come. All the air was cool and fresh; the harvests were gathered home, the young birds were full fledged, the hops … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest
NOT MORE than two months had passed and gone since these stirring adventures befell Robin Hood and Little John, when all Nottinghamshire was a mighty stir and tumult, for King Richard of the Lion’s Heart was making a royal progress … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Robin Hood Turns Butcher
NOW AFTER all these things had happened, and it became known to Robin Hood how the Sheriff had tried three times to make him captive, he said to himself, “If I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne
A LONG TIME passed after the great shooting match, and during that time Robin followed one part of the advice of Sir Robert Lee, to wit, that of being less bold in his comings and his goings; for though mayhap … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions
NOW WHEN THE SHERIFF found that neither law nor guile could overcome Robin Hood, he was much perplexed, and said to himself, “Fool that I am! Had I not told our King of Robin Hood, I would not have gotten … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – The Chase of Robin Hood
SO ROBIN HOOD and the others left the archery range at Finsbury Fields, and, tarrying not, set forth straightway upon their homeward journey. It was well for them that they did so, for they had not gone more than three … Read the rest
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town
THEN THE SHERIFF was very wroth because of this failure to take jolly Robin, for it came to his ears, as ill news always does, that the people laughed at him and made a jest of his thinking to serve … Read the rest