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WILLIAM TELL
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“Go it, Tell!” they cried. "Don’t stand talking to him. Hit him a kick!”
Friesshardt became angrier every minute.
“My orders is,” he said again, “to arrest them as don’t bow down to the hat, and for two pins, young feller, I’ll arrest you. So which is it to be? Either you bow down to that there hat or you come along of me."
Tell pushed him aside, and walked on with his chin in the air. Walter went with him, with his chin in the air.
Whack!
A howl of dismay went up from the crowd as they saw Friesshardt raise his pike and bring it down with all his force on Tell’s head. The sound of the blow went echoing through the meadow and up the hills and down the valleys.
“Ow!" cried Tell.
