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As they are about to break up at last, the Landammann Styger of Schwyz suggests a beautiful thing to them: "As we came from Brunnen, and looked up at the Mytenstein as we passed it, the great pyramid rising up there out of the water as if meant by Nature for a monument, it seemed to us that a memorial tablet should be placed there, simple like the column itself, with words like these: 'To Him who wrote "Tell," on his One Hundredth Birthday, the Original Cantons." And the proposition was received with unanimous shout of assent.
At the end of his speech, Styger lets fall the sail amid the beating of the drums and the shouts of the multitude; and on the flat sides of the rock appear the gilded metal letters, a foot high, "To the Singer of Tell, Fr. Schiller, the Original Cantons, 1859."
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