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Updated: May 25, 2025
And so for a time the soldiers had the best of the fight. For many minutes the fight raged furiously round the pole, and the earth shook beneath the iron boots of Friesshardt and Leuthold as they rushed about, striking out right and left with their fists and the flats of their pikes.
To-day is a great day for Switzerland. We have struck the first blow of the revolution. Let us strike some more." Shouts of "Hear, hear!" from the crowd, many of whom, misunderstanding Tell's last remark, proceeded to hit Leuthold and Friesshardt, until stopped by cries of "Order!" from Ulric the smith. "Gentlemen," continued Tell, "the floodgates of revolution have been opened.
He had said these words standing on the outskirts of the crowd. He now grasped his cudgel and began to steal slowly towards Friesshardt, who had just given Werni the huntsman such a hit with his pike that the sound of it was still echoing in the mountains, and was now busily engaged in disposing of Jost Weiler.
Tell's first idea was that one of the larger mountains in the neighbourhood had fallen on top of him. Then he thought that there must have been an earthquake. Then it gradually dawned upon him that he had been hit by a mere common soldier with a pike. Then he was angry. "Look here!" he began. "Look there!" said Friesshardt, pointing to the cap. "You've hurt my head very much," said Tell.
Who calls for help? Who was it? I will know. And who art thou? And why hast thou this man in custody? FRIESSHARDT. Dread sir, I am a soldier of your guard, And stationed sentinel beside the cap; This man I apprehended in the act Of passing it without obeisance due, So I arrested him, as you gave order, Whereon the people tried to rescue him.
"'E's blushing!" shrieked a voice. Friesshardt turned purple. Then things got still more exciting. "'Ere," said a rough voice in the crowd impatiently, "wot's the good of torkin' to 'em? Gimme that 'ere egg, missus!" And in another instant an egg flew across the meadow, and burst over Leuthold's shoulder. The crowd howled with delight.
They knew that if they crossed the meadow they must bow down before the pole, which they did not want to do, so it occurred to them that an ingenious way of preventing this would be not to cross the meadow. So they went the long way round, and the two soldiers spent a lonely day. "What I sez," said Friesshardt, "is, wot's the use of us wasting our time here?" Of course they ain't.
He rolled over, and after being trodden on by everybody for some minutes, got up and limped back to his cottage, where he went straight to bed, and did not get up for two days. All this time Tell had been standing a little way off with his arms folded, looking on. While it was a quarrel simply between himself and Friesshardt he did not mind fighting.
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