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Tonight, I will be reading

from the merry adventures of Robin Hood.

Robin Hood compasses a marriage.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

And now it come the morning when Fair Ellen was to be married,

on which Mary Robin had sworn that Alan Adale should, as it were, eat out of the

platter that had been filled for Sir Stephen of Trent. Uprose Robin Hood. Uprose his merry men,

one and all, and uprose last of all, stout friar tuck, winking the smart of sleep from out his eyes.

Then, while the air seemed to brim over with a song of many birds,

all blended together and all joying in the misty morn,

each man raved face and hands in the leaping brook, and so the day began.

Now, quoth Robin, when they had broken their fast, and each man had eaten his fill,

it is time for us to set forth upon the undertaking that we have in hand for today.

I will choose me one score of my good men to go with me, for I may need aid,

and thou, will, Scarlett,

will abide here and be the chief while I am gone. Then, searching through all the band,

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