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Tell was roughly pushed into the boat, where he sat closely
guarded on either side by soldiers.  His bow and arrows, which
had been taken from him, were thrown upon a bench beside the
steersman.  Gessler took his seat.  The boat started, and was
soon out on the blue water of the lake.  As the people of Altorf
watched Tell go, their hearts sank.  They had not known, until
they saw him bound and a prisoner, how much they had trusted and
loved him.    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 Foehn.  There used
to be a law that when the Foehn arose, all fires were to be put
out.  For the wind whistled and blew down the wide chimneys like
great bellows, till the fires flared up so fiercely that the
houses, which were built of wood, were in danger of being burned
to the ground