HOW ROBIN HOOD CAME TO BE AN OUTLAW by HOWARD PYLE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

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🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to
0:56.2	The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagadorn from Howard Piles the merry adventures of Robin Hood we bring you the story how Robin Hood came to be an
1:00.6	outlaw this is the first story of that book and others will follow here
1:04.8	at 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. And now how Robin Hood came to be an outlaw.
1:15.0	In Mary England in the time of old, when Good King Henry II ruled the land,
1:20.0	there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was
1:25.5	Robin Hood. No Archer ever lived that could speed a great goose shaft with such skill and
1:30.9	cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeoman as the seven-score merry men that
1:35.2	roamed with him to the Greenwood shades.
1:38.2	Right merrily they dwelled within the depths of Sherwood Forest suffering neither care nor
1:42.4	want, but passing the time in merry games of
1:44.9	archery or bouts of cudgel play, living upon the King's venison, washed down with
1:49.8	droughts of ale of October Brewing.
1:53.0	Not only Robin himself, but all the band were outlaws and twirled apart from other men.
1:58.0	Yet they were beloved by the country people round about,
2:00.0	for no one ever came to Jolly Robin for help in time of need, and went away again with an empty fist.
2:06.0	And now I will tell you how it came about that Robin Hood fell a foul of the law.
2:11.0	When Robin was a youth of 18, stout of sinew and bold of heart, the Sheriff of
2:16.2	Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offered a prize of a butt of ale to
2:20.0	whosoever could shoot the best shaft in Nutting him shire.
2:23.0	Now, quoth Robin, will I go too, for feign would I draw a string for the bright eyes of my
2:29.0	last and a butt of good October Brewing.
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