Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
- Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires or Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons is Child ballad 140, about Robin Hood.
ynopsis
Robin meets an old woman lamenting that her sons will hang for poaching the king's deer. He persuades an old man to trade his ragged clothing for Robin's fine clothes, and in this disguise, offers to be the sheriff's hangman. He blows on his horn, and his men arrive. In some variants, they hang the sheriff instead of the three young men; in all, they all escape back to the greenwood.
Adaptations
Howard Pyle retold this story in "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" with the hero as Little John; he used trickery to get the three young men away, and his bow broke, resulting in his own capture. Robin Hood having just killed Guy of Gisborne, he disguises himself as Guy to carry out the rescue.
ee also
*Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
External links
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch140.htm "Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires"]
* [http://www.bartleby.com/243/122.html "Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons"]
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