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Tonight, I will be reading another story from the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.

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

Robin Hood and Alan Adale.

It has just been told how three unlucky adventures fell upon Robin Hood and Little John, all in one day, bringing them

sore ribs and aching bones.

So next we will tell how they made up for those ill happenings by a good action that came about

not without some small pain to Robin.

Two days had passed by, and somewhat of the soreness had passed

away from Robin Hood's joints, yet still, when he moved of a sudden and without thinking,

pain here and there would, as it were, jog him, crying, thou hast had a drubbing, good fellow.

The day was bright and jocund, and the morning dew still lay upon the grass.

Under the greenwood tree sat Robin Hood.

On one side was Will Scarlet, lying at full length upon his back, gazing up into the clear sky,

with hands clasped behind his head.

Upon the other side sat Little John, fashioning a cudgel out of a stout crab-tree limb.

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