If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch,

you'd build a different kind of bank.

One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots,

doesn't invest in fossil fuels, charges no extra fees for spending abroad,

and definitely doesn't close before you finish work.

You'd build tools to help manage bills, teach kids good money habits, and give interest on personal and joint accounts.

So what would that look like?

Starling Bank, the Bank Built for You. you. The Welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host John Hagadorn. Today a great Robin Hood story from Howard Piles,

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. This one called Robin Hood shoots before Queen Eleanor.

And now our story.

The High Road stretched white and dusty in the hot summer afternoon sun and the trees stood motionless along the roadside.

All across the meadowlands the hot air danced and quivered and in the limpid waters of the lowland brook

spanned by a little stone bridge the fish hung motionless above the yellow gravel

and the dragonfly sat quite still perched upon the sharp tip of a spike of the rushes with its wings glistening in the sun.

Along the road a youth came riding upon a fair milk white barb and the folk that he passed stopped and turned and looked after him

for never had so lovely a lad or one so gaily clad been seen in knotting him before.

He could not have been more than 16 years of age

and was as fair as any maiden.

His long yellow hair flowed behind him as he rode long,

all clad in silk and velvet, with jewels flashing

and dagger jingling against the pommel of the saddle.

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