ROBIN HOOD AIDS A SORROWFUL KNIGHT
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories short stories entails this is your host |
| 0:33.7 | John Haggadorn today we return you to the dark greenwoods of Sherwood forest |
| 0:38.8 | where Robin Hood A sorrowful night. So passed the gentle springtime away in budding beauty, its silver showers and sunshine, its green meadows and its flowers. |
| 1:10.0 | So likewise, past the summer with its yellow sunlight, its quivering heat, and deep basky foliage, its long |
| 1:17.8 | twilight and its mellow nights, through which the frogs croaked and fairy folk were said to be out on the hillsides. |
| 1:25.0 | All this had passed and the time of fall had come, bringing with it its own pleasures and joyousness. |
| 1:32.0 | For now, when the harvest was gathered home, merry bands of gleaners |
| 1:36.3 | roamed the country about, singing along the roads in the daytime, and sleeping beneath the |
| 1:41.1 | hedge rows and the haywicks at night. |
| 1:44.0 | Now the hips turn red and the tangled thickets and the hues waxed black and the hedge rows. |
| 1:50.0 | The stubble lay all crisp and naked to the sky, and the green leaves were fast turning |
| 1:55.0 | russet and brown. |
| 1:58.0 | Also, at this merry season, good things of the year are gathered in a great store. Brown ale lies ripening in the cellar. |
| 2:05.7 | Ham's and bacon hang in the smoke shed and crabs are stowed away in the straw for |
| 2:10.0 | roasting in the wintertime. When the north wind piles the snow and drifts around the gables |
| 2:14.8 | and fire crackles warm upon the hearth. So past the seasons then, so they pass now, |
| 2:22.4 | and so they will pass in times to come. Well we come and go like |
| 2:26.4 | leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten." Quoth Robin Hood, sniffing the air. |
| 2:33.0 | Here's a fair day, little John, and one that we can ill waste in idleness. |
| 2:38.0 | Choose such men as thou dost need, and go thou east, while I will win to the the west and see that each of us bring |
| 2:44.5 | back some goodly guest to dye in this day beneath the greenwood tree. |
| 2:49.2 | Mary! cried little John, clapping his palms together for joy. |
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