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007 - Death Of Robin Hood · Story of Robin Hood

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of the Story of Robin Hood. This is
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  Speaker 1: The Story of Robin Hood by Bertha Evangeline Bush, Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Death of Robin Hood. Now the manner of robin Hood's
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  Speaker 1: death was in this wise. He had grown to be
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  Speaker 1: an old man, and he became ill of a fever.
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  Speaker 1: I will go to my cousin, the Prioress of Kirkles,
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  Speaker 1: for she hath much knowledge of healing. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: will ask her to bleed me that I may become well.
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  Speaker 1: In those days, the women had more knowledge of healing
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  Speaker 1: than any others, for it was the duty of every
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  Speaker 1: mother and daughter to learn as much as she could
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  Speaker 1: about it, that she might know what to do if
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  Speaker 1: her husband or her son were wounded. This cousin of
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  Speaker 1: robin Hood's was greatly indebted to him, for she had
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  Speaker 1: got her good place as prioress. But she loved one
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  Speaker 1: of his enemies, and she dealt treacherously with him. She
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  Speaker 1: opened a vein in his arm, but but she did
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  Speaker 1: not close it up again. Then she left him alone
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  Speaker 1: in a high room at the very top of the
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  Speaker 1: priory to bleed to death. All day long, he bled
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  Speaker 1: till he was so weak that he could hardly move,
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  Speaker 1: But at evening he managed to lift his bugle to
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  Speaker 1: his lips and blow. The blast was but feeble, but
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  Speaker 1: Little John heard it, for though the prioress refused to
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  Speaker 1: let him in with robin Hood, he had lingered as
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  Speaker 1: close to his dear master as he could get all
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  Speaker 1: day long. The prioress locked the gray entry door so
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  Speaker 1: that he might not come in, and he seized a
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  Speaker 1: huge stone mortar that three men could not lift ordinarily,
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  Speaker 1: and hurled it against the door, crashing it in. Then
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  Speaker 1: he dashed up the winding stairs, and none could stay
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  Speaker 1: him until he reached the room under the eaves where
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  Speaker 1: his master lay. But he saw at a glance that
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  Speaker 1: robin Hood was dying. Master. He cried, I will burn
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  Speaker 1: the priory down over the heads of these vile nuns.
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  Speaker 1: Whose mistress has done you such dreadful treachery. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: said robin Hood, with a smile that was feeble but
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  Speaker 1: was wondrous. Sweet, I have never heard a woman in
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  Speaker 1: my life, nor allowed my followers to do it. I
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  Speaker 1: could not allow such a thing now, And with almost
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  Speaker 1: his last breath he made little John promise to do
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  Speaker 1: no injury to the treacherous nun who had killed him.
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  Speaker 1: There are many stories about robin Hood. There is not
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  Speaker 1: enough space here to put down half of them. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you will ask for them at the library and
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  Speaker 1: read them all, and some of the quaint old ballads
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  Speaker 1: about him too, And I hope most of all that
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  Speaker 1: every boy who reads them will try to be as
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  Speaker 1: kindly and as helpful, and as generous, and as brave
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  Speaker 1: and chivalrous to all womenkind as robin Hood was. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter seven