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20 since had had a grudge against him, and was only waiting for a chance of paying him out.

“Mark my words,” said Tell’s wife, Hedwig, when her husband told her about it after supper that night—"mark my words, he will never forgive you.”

“I will avoid him,” said Tell. “He will not seek me.”

“Well, mind you do,” was Hedwig’s reply.

On another occasion, when the Governor's soldiers were chasing a friend of his, called Baumgarten, and when Baumgarten's only chance of escape was to cross the lake during a ﬁerce storm, and when the ferryman, sensibly remarking, “What! must I rush into the jaws of death? No man that hath his senses would do that!” refused to take out his boat even for twice his proper fare, and when the soldiers rode down to seize their prey with dreadful shouts, Tell jumped into the boat, and, rowing with all