Robin Hood and the Shepherd
- Robin Hood and the Shepherd
Robin Hood and the Shepherd is Child ballad 135.
ynopsis
Robin Hood meets with a shepherd and demands to know what he has in his bottle; when the shepherd refuses, he says it will go worse with him if he does not give him some. Robin lays twenty pounds on a fight, and the shepherd agrees to bet his bottle and bag against it. They fight. Robin is worsted, and asks if he may blow his horn. The shepherd agrees, and Little John arrives. The shepherd thrashes him as well, and Robin agrees that the bet was won.
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