And in that moment he felt that she knew him despite his disguise and looked to him to keep the honor of old Sherwood. He drew his bow firmly and, taking advantage of a momentary lull in the breeze, launched the arrow straight and true-singing across the range to the center of the target.
"Tis Rob!" they cried; "welcome to Sherwood Forest, Rob!" And all the men came and greeted him; for they had heard his story.
SPURS coach Tim Sherwood insists the Premiership strugglers can gatecrash the league's big four if they show the same team spirit that helped him win the title as a player with Blackburn 13 years ago.
After a lashing at the hands of the Green Mountain Boys in 1776, Captain Justus Sherwood escaped a sentence of life imprisonment and joined the British secret service.
Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War by John Darrell Sherwood. New York University Press (http://www.nyupress.org), 838 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10003, 2004, 368 pages, $35.00 (hardcover).