MYTHS.
William Tell has. dwindled into a myth. . Kousseau's tomb, which has been made ; the bourne of so many pilgrimages during the last hundred years, has now been discovered to be' untenanted, and now Bonivard, the 'Prisoner, of Chillon,' so beautifully sung pf by Lord Byron, is shown to be something vei-y much akin to a fraud. Visitors to the old Castle of Chillon, on the Lake of. Geneva, have long gazed with reverent eyes on the track worn in |he stone pavement around the pillar to which the captive was chained during his long •incarceration. This year the famous footprints mysteriously disappeared. An inquiry was made in the Cantonal Legislature asv to what had become of theni. Thereupon M;1 Vecquart, Councillor of State, rose and unblushingly explained that they had never existed at,all, but were arificially manufactured to satisfy the demands of a sentimental public." This year the usual repairs were done so late that there was no time to renew this venerable sham. • * v ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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