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How Will Robin Hood Lose Some Of His Merry Men

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood This Paper is a summarization of Chapters 5-8 of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin hood is a wanted outlaw and the sheriff is itching to catch him. Robin lives in Sherwood Forest, which is a fairly large timberland right outside the city of Nottingham. Robin Hood has 140 merry men, who are ready at any given time. The sheriff tries three different acts to catch Robin Hood. He fails inadequately all three times. In chapter 5-8 Robin Hood is very sneaky with the sheriff and so are his merry men. Will Robin Hood get caught? Will he lose some of his merry men? Or will he lose his life? Let’s find out. Chapter 5 starts with Robin Hood wishing for the sheriff to have dinner with him, so he can get back at him again. At this time, this Robin second year living in the forest, since he became an outlaw. While Walking in the woods, Robin meets a butcher with meat, a cart, and a horse. Robin Hood Pays …show more content…

Little John is lazy and out of shape while living in the sheriff’s castle. One morning Little John is settled in bed sleeping in and suddenly he hears Robin’s bugle and reminds him to come home. Little John gets in a huge argument with the Stuart about breakfast. This causes the Cook to come in the kitchen. The Stuart offers the Cook money and a bottle of wine if he can ‘teach Little John a lesson”. The two fights for an hour and Little John stops the fight to ask the Cook to join him and become one of Robin Hood’s merry men. The Two head to Sherwood Forest, but first they take all of the sheriff’s silver plates. Robin is not pleased with Little John for stealing from the sheriff. Little retrieves back to the sheriff to take him to “a place he has never seen anything like it”. Little John brings the sheriff to Robin Hood and He dines with the sheriff again except on his silver plates. After the dinner Robin gives the plates back to the sheriff and send him on his

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