The Noble Fisherman
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The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment is Child ballad 148, a tale of Robin Hood.
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Robin Hood decides to go to sea. Posing as a poor fisherman, he is hired by a woman with a boat, but laughed at for his lack of seamanship. The French try to take the ship, but Robin shoots them all. He finds a treasure hoard of twelve thousand pounds aboard the French warship. Robin offers to share half of it with the others on the boat, but they insist that it is his.
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