Introduction:  Yet again may we withdraw from our work-a-day world into the cool, green delights of merry Sherwood forest, hearken to the three clear blasts of the bugle,and gladden our eyes as the five-score gay yeomen in Lincoln green troop to their master's call.

Chapter 1:  Long, long ago, in the days when Henry the Second, first of the Plantagenet Kings, was seated on the throne of England, a youth was walking swiftly through the forest of Sherwood.