Stories from the Ballads of Robin Hood: With Lists of Other Ballads to Tell and to Read Aloud. Outlines for Story-telling to Children Over Nine Years of Age |
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... Hood , p.16–26 . Rhead . Bold Robin Hood and his outlaw band , p.52–60 . Tappan . Robin Hood , his book , p.75–89 . MacLeod . Book of ballad stories , p.209–215 . Story 4. How Will Gamwell became Will Scarlet Of the.
... Hood , p.16–26 . Rhead . Bold Robin Hood and his outlaw band , p.52–60 . Tappan . Robin Hood , his book , p.75–89 . MacLeod . Book of ballad stories , p.209–215 . Story 4. How Will Gamwell became Will Scarlet Of the.
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... Scarlet Of the meeting with a stranger in scarlet on the highway and how Robin is outdone in a combat with stout staves . How the stranger proveth to be Robin Hood's kin , becometh one of his merry band and is called Will Scarlet ...
... Scarlet Of the meeting with a stranger in scarlet on the highway and how Robin is outdone in a combat with stout staves . How the stranger proveth to be Robin Hood's kin , becometh one of his merry band and is called Will Scarlet ...
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... Scarlet and Will Stutely find a youth sorrowing beneath a willow tree and how Robin doth robe himself as a harper and with a score of his men go to the little church in the dell . Robin stoppeth the marriage of a fair maid with an old ...
... Scarlet and Will Stutely find a youth sorrowing beneath a willow tree and how Robin doth robe himself as a harper and with a score of his men go to the little church in the dell . Robin stoppeth the marriage of a fair maid with an old ...
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... Scarlet shoot against the king's three best archers and win the prize . Sources for the story - teller Ritson . Robin Hood , v.2 , p.235-243 . English and Scottish popular ballads , p.341–346 . Pyle . Merry adventures of Robin Hood , p ...
... Scarlet shoot against the king's three best archers and win the prize . Sources for the story - teller Ritson . Robin Hood , v.2 , p.235-243 . English and Scottish popular ballads , p.341–346 . Pyle . Merry adventures of Robin Hood , p ...
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Page 5 - You who plod so amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy ; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley, that you would not know...
Page 5 - You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one ; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folk of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley...
Page 6 - The source books are arranged with the original or old versions standing first, followed by other sources in the approximate order of their literary value or usefulness. An exception is made in the references under "Stories from Other Old Ballads" and "Ballads to Read Aloud," where there is no essential difference in the versions recommended for children.