title: Very Merry Mischief: A Pride and Prejudice Novella Variation
author:  Elizabeth Ann West 
description: Elizabeth Ann West is a jane-of-all-trades, mistress to none. After spending three years selling her non-fiction articles to websites and marketing firms, she made the jump to writing fiction in 2011. Before choosing a career in writing, she made magic at the Walt Disney World Resort and performed as a Quality Technician for Alcoa. Since then, she's learned to code apps, build websites, and make a mean cup of coffee! Originally from Virginia Beach, VA, her family now moves wherever the Navy sends them. Currently, the Navy needs her family in Connecticut.
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  CHAPTER PAGE  
  
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  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  
  by Howard Pyle
  
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  PREFACE
  
  FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE READER
  
  You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up
  even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you
  who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no
  one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than
  this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by
  seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and
  motley that you would not know them but for the names tagged to them. Here is
  a stout, lusty fellow with a quick temper, yet none so ill for all that, who
  goes by the name of Henry II. Here is a fair, gentle lady before whom all the
  others bow and call her Queen Eleanor. Here is a fat rogue of a fellow,
  dressed up in rich robes of a clerical kind, that all the good folk call my