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Maid Marian.

CHAP. VIII.

Let gallows gape for dog: let man go free.Henry V.

A page had been brought up in Gamwell-Hall, who while he was little had been called Little John, and continued to be so called after he had grown to be a foot taller than any other man in the house. He was full seven feet high. His latitude was worthy of his longitude, and his strength was worthy of both: and though an honest man by profession, he had practised archery on the king's deer for the benefit of his master's household and for the improvement of his own eye and hand, till his aim had become infallible within the range of two miles. He had fought manfully in defence of his young master, took his

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