Chapter 53 THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM TELL

On the lakes of Switzerland storms of wind arise very quickly. The Swiss used to dread these storms so much that they gave names to the winds as if they were people. The south wind, which is the fiercest, they called the F?hn. There used to be a law that when the F?hn arose, all fires were to be put out. For the wind whistled and blew down the wide