Very early next morning, Marian put on boy's clothes and a boy's hat and woke up Friar Tuck. The friar took his staff and Marian took her bow and arrows. Then they left the house and walked on the Great North Road through the forest.
After some hours, the friar suddenly left the road and sat down under a tree.
‘Please let's stop,My Lady,' he said. ‘We had no breakfast and I am very hungry!'
Marian laughed.
'I am sorry,' Friar Tuck, she said. ‘You are right, we will eat now. Stay here. I will take your staff and my bow and arrow, and catch some animals. We can cook them here in the forest.'
Marian left the friar and moved quietly between the forest trees. She saw a deer. Very quietly, she took out an arrow and put it to her bow.
'Stop there, boy!' said a man behind her. The man spoke very loudly. The deer jumped at the noise and ran away into the trees. Marian was very angry. She turned to the speaker but he wore a big hood. She couldn't see his face.
'Well, boy,' said the man. ‘Don't you know that you cannot eat the king's deer? The Sheriff of Nottingham killed two men last week because they caught a deer.'
‘I am not afraid of the sheriff,' said Marian, ‘or of you. Leave now-or fight!'
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