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So they made a great feast , and Allan a Dale sang for the King . That night the King slept in Sherwood on a bed of green leaves . The next day they all rode into Nottingham together , and the Sheriff did not know where to look . Then Robin and his three friends said goodbye to the rest of the band and rode away with the King . X . The Last Arrow Robin did not see Sherwood again for many years . After a year or two at court , Little John came home to Nottinghamshire , and Will Scarlet went back to his own home . But Robin became a favourite of the King . The King made him the Earl of Huntingdon , and Robin followed him to his wars . Allan a Dale and Ellen went with him everywhere . Then King Richard died in battle , and his brother John became King . So Robin came home to England . It was spring . The leaves were green , and the birds were singing . Robin had a great wish to see the forest again , and King John let him visit Nottingham for three days . Robin and Allan rode into Sherwood . Robin knew every path and every stone . At last they came to the great greenwood tree . Nobody was there now , and Robin’s eyes filled with tears . He took his old horn and blew it once more . Little John was walking in the forest that morning . When he heard the horn , he jumped like a deer . Then he gave a great cry and ran through the bushes . The thorns tore his clothes , but he did not care . He threw himself at Robin’s feet and cried like a child . Soon Will Stutely and other old friends came running too . “ I’ll never leave these woods again , ” said Robin . “ I’m not the Earl of Huntingdon any more . I’m Robin Hood again . ” And in a week almost all his old band were with him . King John was very angry when he heard this . He sent an army , and the Sheriff of Nottingham joined it . For seven days they searched the forest . In the old days Robin always escaped with a trick . But he had fought in the King’s wars for many years , and he was different now . He did not want to run away . There was a hard battle in the forest . Robin’s men won , but many men on both sides died that day , and the Sheriff was one of them . This battle lay heavy on Robin’s heart , and soon he fell ill with a fever . “ I’ll go to my cousin at Kirklees , in Yorkshire , ” he told Little John . “ She is the prioress there , the head of a house of nuns . She knows a lot about medicine , and she’ll take a little blood from my arm . ” In those days doctors often did this , because they thought it helped .
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