Hi guys, here I will tell you chapter 14 that contains "Robin
Hood and the Gold Arrow" Oke, please read bellow.
Robin
Hood and the Gold Arrow
Chapter: 14
Every day, the sheriff's men
brought new stories about Robin Hood. Prince John heard the stories too. ‘This
man Robin Hood only has fifty men,’ he said to the sheriff. ‘You have five
hundred men but you cannot catch him. People are laughing at you! What are you
going to do?’
‘I have another plan, My Lord,’
said the sheriff. ‘I will have a contest with bows and arrows. The winner will
get a gold arrow. I know that Robin Hood will come. Everybody says that he is
the best bowman in England. He will win the contest and take the gold arrow.
Then I will take him.’
Robin and his men heard about the
contest. The sheriff was right, they
wanted to go. ‘You will have to
stay at home, Robin,’ laughed Little John. ‘We want to win, and we are better
than the sheriff's men. But you are a better bowman than all of us!’
‘Be careful, Robin,’ said Marian.
‘The sheriff is a dangerous man. He knows that you will go. He only wants to
find you and kill you!’
‘I know that,’ said Robin. ‘This
is a fine adventure. I will win the contest, but the sheriff won't catch me
...’
‘Then I will come too,’ said
Marian. ‘I will wear boy's clothes again, and my boy's hat. The sheriff will
not know me, and I will play in the contest. Perhaps I will win the gold arrow,
not you!’
On the day of the contest, many
people came. Some people played and other people watched. One hundred of the
sheriff's men were there too. ‘The winner of this contest will be Robin Hood,’
the sheriff told his men. ‘He will come to take the gold arrow from me, then
you can take him. But do not kill him. Prince John wants to meet him first!’ The
contest began. One man was the best. ‘That man is Robin Hood,’ thought the
Sheriff. ‘People say he is clever. But we will catch him easily. That big man
with him is Little John and the fat man is Friar Tuck. We will take them too.
But who is the boy? He is very good with a bow and arrow too.’ The contest
finished and Robin Hood was the winner. He went to the sheriff and smiled. ‘The
arrow is mine, I think,’ he said. The sheriff smiled coldly and gave him the
gold arrow. Then Robin turned away. ‘Take him now!’ shouted the sheriff to his
men. But twenty of Robin's men took off their hoods and moved behind Robin. A
great swordfight began. Robin's men and the sheriff's fought for a long time.
Marian fought too this time, and she fought well. Many of the sheriff's men
died that day. The sheriff was very angry. ‘Where are Prince John's men?’ he
shouted. ‘They are late, and Robin Hood is winning!’ Then Prince John arrived
with fifty men on horses. ‘They are too many,’ called Robin to his men, ‘and
they are on horses. Get back to the forest! Marian, come!’ Then Will Scarlet
called out, 'Robin, Marian! They hurt Little John!'
‘Don't wait for me,’ said Little
John. ‘It is my leg. I cannot walk. Go! Go!’
‘Never!’ said Robin. With Will
and Marian's help, he put Little John on his back and ran to the forest road.
Suddenly a man arrived on a white horse. It was Richard
of Lee. ‘Quick, Robin, put Little
John on the horse and follow me. The sheriff and his men will not look for you
in my home!’ So Sir Richard helped his friends Robin, Marian, Little John and
Will Scarlet. They stayed at Sir Richard's house that night. Robin told Sir Richard
and his wife about the contest and about other adventures in the forest. ‘You
have many adventures, My Lady,’ said Sir Richard's wife to Marian, ‘but you
live dangerously. You cannot go home or visit your father. How will these adventures
end? When will you leave the forest ?’
‘One day, King Richard will come
home,’ answered Marian. ‘Then life will be better for poor people and Robin and
I will go home.’
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