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Forsooth and bestreweth my liege lord and verily so it must be. How on earth did The Black Arrow take over popularity from Treasure Island. This is Walter Scott plus. Medieval and Shakespearian English with knobs on. And yet, beneath all of that, it is Stevenson and though he may have wrote it with his tongue well in his cheek he is still a stylist and a very good one.