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SOMETIMES IT WAS ONLY A BIRD Rh GESSLER'S METHODS OF PERSUASION THEY WOULD MARCH ABOUT, BEATING TIN CANS AND SHOUTING AN EGG FLEW ACROSS THE MEADOW, AND BURST OVER LEUTHOLD'S SHOULDER "HERE! HI!" SHOUTED THE SOLDIERS, "STOP!" THEY SAW FRIESSHARDT RAISE HIS PIKE, AND BRING IT DOWN WITH ALL HIS FORCE ON TELL'S HEAD "LOOK HERE!" HE BEGAN. "LOOK THERE!" SAID FRIESSHARDT FRIESSHARDT RUSHED TO STOP HIM THE CROWD DANCED AND SHOUTED "COME, COME, COME!" SAID GESSLER, "TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT" "I HAVE HERE AN APPLE" THERE WAS A STIR OF EXCITEMENT IN THE CROWD A MOMENT'S SUSPENSE, AND THEN A TERRIFIC CHEER AROSE FROM THE SPECTATORS "SEIZE THAT MAN!" HE SHOUTED HE WAS LED AWAY TO THE SHORE OF THE LAKE TELL'S SECOND ARROW HAD FOUND ITS MARK