Robin Hood and his merry men [antikvár]

The following stories of the adventures of Robin Hood and his merry men are intended for pupils of the fifth and sixth grades. The writer has consulted all the available sources but is under particular obli-gations to Childs's great collection of ballads. There is no definite tale or ballad reproduced in the first story, but it is built on the tradition that Robin Hood was once the Earl of Huntington, and was, for no good cause, deprived of his lands and title. The other stories follow well authenticated sources, but here and there strict proportion and accuracy have been neg-lected in order that the great outlaw and his men may not, however romantically disguised, appear as thieves and ruffians. That is, the emphasis is put on deeds of rescue or other such knightly prowess, while the rob-bing which Robin Hood did is minimized, and where it appears it is shown that it occurred in the way of informál justice against a high-placed thief in order to restore lawful property to an unfortunate knight who had been robbed.