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The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1888
Pages
Pages 250

Old Nick Appleyard stands in his cabbage patch grumbling about the archery of his youth, when a shaft comes out of the wood and takes him between the shoulders. Nailed to the church door that morning is a rhyme in a rough hand, promising four black arrows for four griefs and naming the men they are meant for.

Ye shull each have your own part, A blak arrow in each blak heart.
The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson

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