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you are one of Robin Hood’s gang, therefore take me to where he is, and your life shall be saved.” The old woman, who had got her directions from Robin, agreed to take him ; and being soon mounted, they rode to an opening in the Forest, where Robin’s bowmen were all drawn up, when the Bishop asked “Who are these? “I think it is Robin Hood, whom you want, and his merry men,” replied she, “but I cannot be certain, for I am only a poor old woman, who changed clothes with him.” The bishop, after bestowing a hearty malediction on the old woman, was turning to ride off ; but Robin brought him down from his horse, and forced him to partake of their good cheer. After dinner he made the Bishop dance a hornpipe, to the no small diversion of the bowmen ; and having eased him of five hundred pounds, as payment of his reckoning, they led him and his followers to the high road, where the bowmen gave three cheers, and then returned to the Forest. One fine summer day, when the merry bowmen were enjoying their ports, and trying each other’s prowess,