Stir those lazy bones of thine, for thou must get thee straightway to our good gossip, the draper Hugh Longshanks of Ancaster.

This was the treasure house of the band, and thither Robin Hood went and, unlocking the door, entered the chamber, from which he brought forth a bag of gold which he gave to Little John, to pay Hugh Longshanks withal, for the cloth of Lincoln green.

[Footnote 23: We shall call him Caius, because it is as little correct to write of him by the sobriquet Caligula as it would be habitually to write of our kings Edward or John as Longshanks or Lackland.

Edward, surnamed "Longshanks," having collected many antiques, and cut up a few also, returned and took charge of the throne.

[Illustration: LONGSHANKS RECEIVES TIDINGS OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH.

Then, didn't he flee at the battle of Falkirk; and was he not a robber when Scotland belonged to Longshanks?

Long, Short, White, Black, Greathead, Longshanks, etc., told what a person in the eyes of men the owner presented.

Undoubtedly, to light on Edward Longshanks alone in a forest would appear to King Philippe, if properly attended, a tempting chance to settle divers difficulties, once for all; and Sire Edward knew the conscience of his old opponent to be invulnerable.

You might have profited, as I have done, by considering the trick which our grandfather, old Edward Longshanks, played on the French King at Mezelais.

I have pieced together these tales about the women who intermarried, not very enviably, with the demon-tainted blood of Edward Longshanks, because it seems to me that these tales, when they are rightly considered, compose the initial portion of a troubling history.

MEADER, STEPHEN W. Longshanks.

MEADER, STEPHEN W. Longshanks.

And who can blame Longshanks if he did the same?

Longshanks, trembling at the knee, Quavered, "Hans, he's watching me!" Shorty whimpered, scared to fits, "No, it's me he's after, Fritz!" Sick with fear, their souls revolted; As one man they turned and bolted.

"I tell you what, Mr. Longshanks!"

ADOLPH OF NASSAU, Kaiser from 1291 to 1298, "a stalwart but necessitous Herr" Carlyle calls him; seems to have been under the pay of Edward Longshanks.