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Updated: April 30, 2025
When Betty looked at Clumber House, across a pretty little lake, she only said: "Perhaps near that lake was where Robin found Alan-a-Dale, the dear minstrel." "Oh, no, Betty; it was by a fountain that he found Alan-a-Dale," Barbara politely corrected. "Yes, that's so, Barbara," Betty replied, in all seriousness. "I forgot."
There came Little John and Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale in glittering garments, with smooth, fair brows and tuneful voices, to circle and sing. Fadeless and untarnished was each magnificent cloak and doublet, slashed with green or purple; straight and fair and supple was every back and limb.
In this way it came to pass that he had to plead his cause before Nora's mother and her elder sister. He had pleaded it well, and Lady Rowley's heart had been well disposed towards him; but when she asked of his house and his home, his answer had been hardly more satisfactory than that of Alan-a-Dale. There was little that he could call his own beyond "The blue vault of heaven."
"Or or 'hurling yourself from the topmost pinnacle of yon lofty crag?" "Yes, Imp; the 'loftier' the better!" "Then you must be in love, like Alan-a-Dale; he was going to hang himself, an' 'hurl himself oft the topmost pinnacle, you know, only Robin Hood said, 'Whence that doleful visage, an' stopped him you remember?" "To be sure," I nodded.
Thereupon King Richard arose, rolled up his sleeve, and gave such a blow as Robin had never felt before. It was afterwards that Sir Richard of the Lea appeared upon the scene, and disclosed the identity of the powerful stranger. Then Robin Hood, Little John, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale followed the King to London at the royal wish, and left Sherwood for many a long day."
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