'You stupid man! What are you doing?' shouted Friar Tuck.
Robin took out his sword.
‘Now we have no boat, friar,' he said. 'Cary me across the river on your back and perhaps I will not kill you!'
The friar said nothing. He looked at Robin's sword and then waked into the water. Robin climbed onto his back and they went lowly to the middle of the river. Then the friar suddenly
stopped, stood up, and threw Robin into the water.
Friar Tuck could swim more quickly than Robin. He got out of the river and called,
'Come here, friend, and fight with me. I do not have a sword because I am a churchman. And I can kill a man with my two hands!'
Then Will Scarlet came out of the forest with ten of Robin's men.
‘Robin,are you hurt?' he called. Robin climbed out of the river.
'What are you going to do now, friar?' said Robin. ‘Will you fight us?'
Friar Tuck did not answer him. He called loudly, ‘Hunter! Biter! Here, my boys!'
Two great dogs came out of the forest.
‘My two dogs and I are ready to fight you!' said Friar Tuck.
‘But tell me first, are you Robin Hood?'
'I am,' said Robin. ‘Lady Marian sent me. She is right - you are a good fighter! Will you come and live in the forest? Will you be our friar?
The next day, Friar Tuck married Robin and Marian in the little church of River Dale. Then he left his house by the river. Now he was one of Robin's men.
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