Stories of persons and places in Europe . atherland before all, and life asnothing. The three men of Rutli raised their hands to heaven, and swore toG-od the Lord, faithfully to live and die for the rights of the innocent peopleThen the thirty raised their hands and took the oath like the three. They appointed New Years night for the work, and then separated; each returnedto his valley and his cabin and tended his cattle. One of these thirtymen, it is said, was William Tell. Some wise men have concluded that there never was such a person asWilliam Tell, and that all the stories about him are m
Stories of persons and places in Europe . atherland before all, and life asnothing. The three men of Rutli raised their hands to heaven, and swore toG-od the Lord, faithfully to live and die for the rights of the innocent peopleThen the thirty raised their hands and took the oath like the three. They appointed New Years night for the work, and then separated; each returnedto his valley and his cabin and tended his cattle. One of these thirtymen, it is said, was William Tell. Some wise men have concluded that there never was such a person asWilliam Tell, and that all the stories about him are myths ; but it will notdo for them to tell the people of Switzerland so. One man tried it a few Switzerland. 293 years ago He read a paper before a historical association at Geneva mwhich he tried to prove that William Tell was only an imaginary next year he happened in Alterof, and when the people found he wasthere they sent word to tell him that the sooner he left the place the better itwould be for him. He left without PEASANT IN HOLIDAY DRESS. William Tell.—The Story of William Tell is very beatifuUy told by theGerman writer Zschokke as follows: The bailiff, Herman Gessler, was not easy because he had an evil con-science. It seemed to him that the people began to raise their heads andto show more boldness. So he set the ducal hat of Austria on a pole in Uri,and ordered that every one who passed it should do it reverence. And 294 Persons and Places in Europe. William Tell, the archer of Burglen, one of the thirty men of Rutli, passedbefore it, but he did not bow. He was immediately carried to the bailiff,who angrily said : Insolent archer, I will punish thee by means of thineown craft. I will place an apple on the head of thy little son. Shoot it off,and fail not. And they bound the child, and placed an apple on his head,and led the archer far away. He took aim. The bowspring twanged. Thearrow pierced the apple. All the people shouted for joy. But Gessler
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