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The Outlaws of Sherwood
Robin McKinley
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This Ace book contains the complete text of the original hardcover
edition.
It has been completely reset in a typeface designed for easy reading
and was printed from new film.
THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD
An Ace Book / published by arrangement with Greenwillow Books
PRINTING HISTORY
Greenwillow Books edition published 1988 Ace edition / August
All rights reserved. Copyright ┬й 1988 by Robin McKinley.
Cover art by Darrell Sweet.
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To Merrilee, who saved it; and to R. W., who saved me
 CHAPTER ONE
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A small vagrant breeze came from nowhere and barely flicked the feather tips as the
arrow sped on its way. It shivered in its flight, and fell, a little off courseтАФjust
enough that the arrow missed the slender tree it was aimed at, and struck tiredly and
low into the bole of another tree, twenty paces beyond the mark.
Robin sighed and dropped his bow. There were some people, he thought, who
not only could shoot accuratelyтАФif the breeze hadnтАЩt disturbed it, that last arrow
would have flown trueтАФbut seemed to know when and where to expect small
vagrant breezes, and to allow for them. He was not a bad archer, but his father had
been a splendid one, and he was his fatherтАЩs only child.
His father had taught him to shoot; he had also taught him to make and fletch his
own arrows. Robin stooped to pull the treacherous arrow out of the ash it had
chosen to fly at, and ran his fingers gently over the shaft. It was undamaged, he was
relieved to see; he had a living to earn, and little time to spend making his own
arrows. Mostly he sold the ones he found time to make; he had some slight local