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WILLIAM TELL
“Rebel!” repeated Walter firmly.
“We will!” cried everybody.
“Down with the tyrant!" shouted Walter Fürst.
“Down with the taxes!" shrieked the crowd.
A scene of great enthusiasm followed. The last words were spoken by Werner Stauffacher.
“We want a leader,” he said.
“I don‘t wish to thrust myself forward,” began Arnold of Sewa, “but I must say, if it comes to leading—"
“And I know the very man for the job,” said Werner Stauffacher. “William Tell!”
“Hurrah for William Tell!” roared the crowd, and, taking the time from Werner Stauffacher, they burst into the grand old Swiss chant which runs as follows:
“For he’s a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!!
For he's a jolly good fe-e-ll-ow!!!!
And so say all of us!"
