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Robin, elated with his own superiority, said, “ My friends, do you know any man that can match me at wrestling, playing the quarter-staff, or killing a deer?’’ Will Scarlet, who bore Robin a kind of a grudge, replied, “I have heard of a friar in Fountain Abbey, who will draw a bow, wrestle, or handle a quarter-staff, with any man alive.” "Say you so," said Robin; “I will soon have proof of that;" and taking his bow and quarter-staff with him, went to the neighbourhood of the Abbey, where he saw a tall brawny friar walking by the river side, and instantly knew him to be the man he wanted. Robin tied his horse to a tree, and came up to the friar, said, “Carry me over this river, thou brawny friar, or I will crack thy crown.” The friar returned no answer, but immediately took Robin upon his back, and carried him to the other side without speaking a single word. Robin leaped off the friar’s back, and pretended to be going away ; but the friar stopped him saying, “Carry me back again, thou fine fellow, or it shall breed thee pain.” Robin took the friar on his back; and having carried him