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Robin Hood's dead and gwone, but there be takers yet in the vale of Bever. "Robin Hood was a yeoman right good, And his bow was of trusty yew; And if Robin said stand on the king's lea-land, Pray, why should not we say so too?" Jeanie pursued her journey without farther inquiry, for there was nothing in Dick's manner that inclined her to prolong their conference.
Five days they rode from Leashowe north away, by thorpe and town and mead and river, till the land became little peopled, and the sixth day they rode the wild-wood ways, where was no folk, save now and again the little cot of some forester or collier; but the seventh day, about noon, they came into a clearing of the wood, a rugged little plain of lea-land, mingled with marish, with a little deal of acre-land in barley and rye, round about a score of poor frame-houses set down scattermeal about the lea.
Robin Hood's dead and gwone, but there be takers yet in the vale of Bever. "Robin Hood was a yeoman right good, And his bow was of trusty yew; And if Robin said stand on the king's lea-land, Pray, why should not we say so too?" Jeanie pursued her journey without farther inquiry, for there was nothing in Dick's manner that inclined her to prolong their conference.
And yet, Lord help me, I have seen the day I would have tramped five leagues of lea-land, and turned an my toe the whole evening after, as a juggler spins a pewter platter on the point of a needle.
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