The Badminton Magazine 1896-04: Vol 2 Iss 9 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 26
Sherwood there were the counterparts of Robin Hood and his lieutenant, Little John. No one knew that better than the lion-like King Richard, and, truculent game preserver as he was, he had a sneaking sympathy with poaching freebooters. As he remarked to the jovial companion of his carouse, when he… … ever and anon, as I pattered my prayers, I would let fly a shaft among the herds of dun deer that feed in the glades. Resolve me, Holy Clerk, hast thou never practised such a pastime?’ Naturally the poacher of the period declined to answer so com- promising a query, and sternly rebuked the…
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