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Robin Hood.

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N the time of Richard I. king of England, the famous Robin Hood was born at a village in Nottinghamshire, and near which were many large forests filled with deer. His father was a ranger of the forest, and he had a rich old old uncle, Squire Gamewell, a brother of his mother’s who lived about twenty miles distant. When Robin had reached his thirteenth year, it was determined that he should pay his uncle a visit at Christmas; and accordingly, after puting on a new suit of clothes, he set off on horseback, with his mother