Robin Hood Chapter 5

The following paragraphs will be summarizing chapters five through eight in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. We’ll be going through the beginning of how Robin became a meat butcher for a whole day to how a suspicious Tanner ended up joining his crew. These chapters will be filled with many surprises, humor, and more to come for the excited readers.

In the beginning of chapter five, we start off with Robin Hood, who’s twenty years old, wanting to get back at the Sheriff for almost bringing him captive three times. As he was walking through the forest, he meets a young butcher along the road with his mare and cart filled with fresh meat. As Robin Hood introduced himself to the Butcher and started a conversation, the Butcher tells him that

Instead of stealing from him, Robin Hood convinces the Butcher that if he were to give him his whole cart and apron, he’ll be able to give him back six marks in money in return. The Butcher agrees and gives him all of his belongings, leaving Robin Hood to go to the town. He charged the wealthy double, the poor and the beautiful free, and the housewives for one pence. Because he was selling meat in such a strange method, the other butchers believed him to be a thief or some sort of prodigal. One of the butchers decided to invite him to the Guide Hall, where all the butchers in town would feast together with the Sheriff. During the feast, the Sheriff was teasing him for being a prodigal, but Robin would also taunt back; he said that if he weren’t such a fat drunk, he could have a possible chance of catching Robin Hood! Their argument ended when Robin Hood offered the Sheriff a cattle for three hundred pounds. He says that an older miser like the Sheriff himself shouldn’t turn down such a grand offer, because it would be such a waste! The Sheriff agrees at the end, before asking Robin Hood for

The readers start of with how Little John ended up staying at the Sheriff’s household longer than expected. He wakes up one morning listening to a horn, which reminded him of Robin Hood and all of his other merry friends. He promises himself that he would come back to the crew. When he had came to the kitchen for some breakfast, the Steward and him begin to have a heated argument. The Steward ends up bribing the Cook to fight Little John with money after he was beaten in the previous fight, and the Cook agrees. Instead of fighting though, both the Cook and Little John end up doing what most friends would do together; they sang, eat, and chat together. Unfortunately, they ended up fighting one and another for an hour. It ended up with Little John realizing how much he liked the Cook. After inviting him to join Robin Hood’s men, they decide to steal all of the Sheriff’s silver. Robin doesn’t like the fact that he stole from the Sheriff after both of them had came back to give him all of the silver, and tells Little John that he must give it back. Saying that it was only a joke, Little John runs back and manages to convince the Sheriff into the forest by saying he saw a very rare green deer! At the end of chapter seven, Robin gives the Sheriff his silver back, and warns him that he should keep an eye on his