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Today two stories from the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.

The first, Little John and the Tanner of Bliphe.

One fine day,

day, not long after Little John had left to bite him with the sheriff and had come back with his

worship's cook to the Mary Greenwood, as has just been told, Robin Hood and a few chosen fellows of his band lay upon the soft

sward beneath the greenwood tree where they dwelled. The day was warm and sultry, so that

while most of the band were scattered through the forest upon this mission

and upon that, these few stout fellows lay lazily beneath the shade of the tree

in the soft afternoon, passing jests among themselves, and telling Mary's stories with laughter and mirth.

All the air was laden with the bitter fragrance of the May, and all the Bosky shades of the woodlands

beyond rang with the sweet song of birds, the

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