{"id":"01KG16QBT82PAK7W0JSYKNGAP8","cid":"bafkreidykoxncwbh2qwvwpjlqhugjx6s6bxhhldcwft6w4yvl7ohhfprqu","type":"scene","properties":{"description":"# Playing Robin Hood  \n## Overview  \nThis entity is a textual scene extracted from chapter XXVI of *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, spanning lines 6520 to 6554 in the source file [tom_sawyer.txt](arke:01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534). It captures a dialogue between the characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as they discuss the legendary figure Robin Hood and decide to play at being him. The scene was extracted automatically and later manually edited as part of the [More Classics](arke:01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS) collection.\n\n## Context  \nThe scene occurs within [CHAPTER XXVI](arke:01KG16PT8N4Y3JYFS6AHK7P0EF) of [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete](arke:01KG16N2K9058F4BVCSK7DDWHH), following an earlier moment in which Huck expresses superstitious concern about it being Friday and recounts a bad dream about rats—details covered in the preceding scene, [Dream About Rats](arke:01KG16QBV15G0Y9FEGXB8AQ0QN). Because of these omens, the boys postpone their planned exploration of the haunted house and instead turn to imaginative play. This moment of levity serves as a brief interlude before the more suspenseful events that follow, including their eventual return to the dead tree and the discovery of treasure, as depicted in the next scene, [Return to the Dead Tree](arke:01KG16QBTY7J8KY1NC51MG8K1S).\n\n## Contents  \nThe scene consists of a conversation in which Tom describes Robin Hood as a heroic outlaw who robbed the rich—such as sheriffs, bishops, and kings—but protected and shared with the poor. Huck reacts with admiration, calling Robin Hood a “brick,” and agrees to play the game. Tom boasts of Robin Hood’s unmatched skill, claiming he could shoot a ten-cent piece from a mile and a half with his “yew bow,” though neither boy knows what a yew bow actually is. They spend the afternoon playing, occasionally glancing toward the haunted house and discussing the next day’s prospects. The passage ends as they head home through the woods of Cardiff Hill at sunset, marking a transition from imaginative play to the resumption of their treasure-seeking adventure.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-28T02:32:29.722Z","description_model":"Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507","description_title":"Playing Robin Hood","end_line":6554,"extracted_at":"2026-01-28T02:25:37.432Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Playing Robin Hood","source_file":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","start_line":6520,"text":"you know Robin Hood, Huck?”\r\n\r\n“No. Who’s Robin Hood?”\r\n\r\n“Why, he was one of the greatest men that was ever in England—and the\r\nbest. He was a robber.”\r\n\r\n“Cracky, I wisht I was. Who did he rob?”\r\n\r\n“Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. But\r\nhe never bothered the poor. He loved ’em. He always divided up with ’em\r\nperfectly square.”\r\n\r\n“Well, he must ’a’ been a brick.”\r\n\r\n“I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was.\r\nThey ain’t any such men now, I can tell you. He could lick any man in\r\nEngland, with one hand tied behind him; and he could take his yew bow\r\nand plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half.”\r\n\r\n“What’s a _yew_ bow?”\r\n\r\n“I don’t know. It’s some kind of a bow, of course. And if he hit that\r\ndime only on the edge he would set down and cry—and curse. But we’ll\r\nplay Robin Hood—it’s nobby fun. I’ll learn you.”\r\n\r\n“I’m agreed.”\r\n\r\nSo they played Robin Hood all the afternoon, now and then casting a\r\nyearning eye down upon the haunted house and passing a remark about the\r\nmorrow’s prospects and possibilities there. As the sun began to sink\r\ninto the west they took their way homeward athwart the long shadows\r\nof the trees and soon were buried from sight in the forests of Cardiff\r\nHill.\r\n\r","title":"Playing Robin Hood"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG16PT8N4Y3JYFS6AHK7P0EF","peer_label":"CHAPTER XXVI","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","peer_label":"tom_sawyer.txt","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG16QBV15G0Y9FEGXB8AQ0QN","peer_label":"Dream About Rats","peer_type":"scene","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG16QBTY7J8KY1NC51MG8K1S","peer_label":"Return to the Dead Tree","peer_type":"scene","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-28T02:25:37.789Z","ts":"2026-01-28T02:32:29.943Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}