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The Black Arrow

PROLOGUE--JOHN AMEND-ALL
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This will be a rare shog to poor Sir Oliver; he will turn paper colour; he will pray like a windmill." They took up the old archer, and carried him between them into his house, where he had dwelt alone.

And there they laid him on the floor, out of regard for the mattress, and sought, as best they might, to straighten and compose his limbs.
Appleyard's house was clean and bare.

There was a bed, with a blue cover, a cupboard, a great chest, a pair of joint-stools, a hinged table in the chimney corner, and hung upon the wall the old soldier's armoury of bows and defensive armour.

Hatch began to look about him curiously.
"Nick had money," he said.

"He may have had three score pounds put by.
I would I could light upon't! When ye lose an old friend, Master Richard, the best consolation is to heir him.


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