[Illustration: "COME, COME, COME!" SAID GESSLER, "TELL ME ALL ABOUT
IT"]




PLATE X.


And Tell, before the tyrant hailed,
No patriot you'd have guessed him,
For even his stout bosom quailed
When Gessler thus addressed him:--
"As you're the crack shot of these Swiss
(I've often heard it said so),
Suppose you take a shot at this,
Placed on your youngster's head--so!"

[Illustration: "I HAVE HERE AN APPLE"]




PLATE XI.


"The bearing," as they say, "of that
Lay in the apple-cation,"
And nobody will wonder at
A parent's agitation;