We are having great fun with Robin Hood.  Cameron looks forward to it each day and he looks forward to "setting up the scene."  I'm allowing him to retell Robin Hood using his men.

The Sheriff of Nottingham wants Robin arrested, but no one will serve the warrant.  The Sheriff is asking the men of Nottingham shire if they will do it.

No one wants "a cracked crown and broken bones" so the Sheriff sends a messenger to another town to see if someone will.  The messenger meets with several men but it is the Tinker that takes on the task. 

We had to look up exactly what a tinker was.  I had no clue.  But now we both know that a tinker traveled from town to town to fix metal.  (Cameron has never been very good with names.  I know he gets it from his father.  He keeps referring to Robin and Red Robin Hood and the Tinker was Tinker Toy...just a funny side note)

The Tinker takes the warrant and goes off to find "this knave Robin Hood" and who does he meet but some nice youth on the way.  (It is really Robin)  They immediately hit it off.

Robin does not reveal who he is and finds out that the Tinker is after him.  He invites him back to the inn for some drink and fellowship.  The Tinker loves his drink and hardily accepts.

But Robin has the innkeeper put something into his drink to make him fall asleep.

Robin pays for their refreshments but then tells the innkeeper to charge the Tinker when he wakes up.  Then he steals the warrant right out from the Tinker's bag.  Which is very funny because the Tinker was bragging about it.

Robin is gone when the Tinker awakens and is angry to find that the one he was spending time with was the very one he was after, and that he had taken the warrant, AND that he had to pay the innkeeper. 

The Tinker goes on his way.  He is angry and who should he run into in the bend in the road but a whistling Robin.

They fight with cudgel and staff

Cudgel breaks staff and Robin calls for some of his merry men. 

Little John and some yeomen (AKA Storm Troopers) come to his aid.

At this point in the reading (before this delightful re-enactment) Cameron interrupts with, "The Tinker is going to join the merry men.  Just like Little John did in the last chapter."

The very next sentence had Robin's invitation to join.  The Tinker gladly accepted.