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near started up wondering what it might be. After a while
one of the men-at-arms gathered courage enough to pick
it up and bring it to the Sheriff. Then everyone saw that it
was a blunted gray goose shaft, with a fine scroll, about the
thickness of a goose quill, tied near to its head. The Sheriff
opened the scroll and glanced at it, while the veins upon his
forehead swelled and his cheeks grew ruddy with rage as he
read, for this was what he saw:

‘Now Heaven bless Thy Grace this day
Say all in sweet Sherwood
For thou didst give the prize away
To merry Robin Hood.’

‘Whence came this?’ cried the Sheriff in a mighty voice.
‘Even through the window, Your Worship,’ quoth the
man who had handed the shaft to him.

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