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Howard Pyle

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Born 1853 in Wilmington · Died 1911 in Florence

writer · United States

Notable works: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

From Project Gutenberg e-text #10148 (public domain in the USA).

Little John, mine own dear friend, and him I love better than all others in the world, mark, I prythee, where this arrow lodges, and there let my grave be digged.

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One man calleth me kind, another calleth me cruel; this one calleth me good honest fellow, and that one, vile thief. Truly, the world hath as many eyes to look upon a man withal as there are spots on a toad; so, with what pair of eyes thou regardest me lieth entirely with thine own self. My name is Robin Hood.

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Otto of the Silver Hand

From Project Gutenberg e-text #2865 (public domain in the USA).

This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.

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