The Message

The Sheriff was glum that night at the rich supper table with his wife. “I thought I could catch that thief with this contest,” he said to her.

“I guess Robin Hood was too much of a coward to show his face.” Right then, a shaft crashed through the window and stuck straight into the roast. The Sheriff unfolded the note that was stuck to the arrow. It read that the beggar at the contest had been none other than Robin Hood. The note instructed him to look closely at the arrow. When he did, the Sheriff realized it was one of his own arrows—the very same arrow he had covered in gold and given as the prize. Robin Hood's men had scraped off the gold and kept it. The duped sheriff upended the table and stormed off, madder than he had ever been in his whole life.