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unniform, Robin dressed and mounted, as a butcher, and rode straight to Nottingham market, where he hired a stall, and began to dispose of his meat, given more for one penny than the butchers could do for five, so that they sold nothing. The butchers supposing him to be some senseless spendthrift, and that a good bargain might be got of him, asKed him to dine with them. Robin consented, and after dinner insisted on paying the bill which was no sooner observed by the Sheriff, a cuing old miser, who was master both of the market and tavern, than he determined to take advantage of it, and said to him “Good fellow hast thou any horned beasts to sell?” “Yes, good Master Sheriff,” replied Robin, "If you please to go and see them.” The Sheriff immediately ordered out his horse, and putting three hundred pounds in gold into a bag, rode of with Robin on the road that leads through Sherwood Forest. On entering the Forest the Sheriff exclaimed, “God preserve us from the man called Robin Hood!” and they had not proceeded far when a number of fat deer were seen skipping about. “How do you