| Show THE heroes PAS aing AWAY ilkka is I 1 s deceiving I 1 ece iving some severe severo blows in ili this iconoclastic age ago tho and tho the prestige our rounding surrounding some soine great names in tile tire worlds history are being amal alai assailed led dispelled and torn away and anti what is asserted as the naked snaked truth is presented pro dented which frequently shows that the wor wo worshipped shipped or at least profoundly profound revered hero is a 11 alyth or at most post a very character to what lie ha ilal s been generally supposed to be william tell is is supposed to be a ma byj tab h the are after columbus coluni ds and andnis liis llis crown crown of victory victori as its the discoverer of america and lastly sonie ent handler of the pen lias luvi dared daled to question the 06 propriety iro of ringing scots iscoff wha hae lae wp wil wallace bled bied 11 and to rudely throw turow that hero down from his ills pedestal and ani expose him as a very ill bred brutal cowardly ruf ruellan ru llan filan instead of the personification of bravery and the loftiest loft iest patriotism Willi william arn ain WA W new historian portrays him as ds a vulgar savage thief and murderer a human embodiment of fiendish cruelty and ferocity stating that lie he won but one fight and that a small one that lie was a marauder a horse thief a murderer pf af women and children and was about as worthy of respect as an apache or a modoc that in ills hia one successful fight lie stripped the english leader of his skin to make a sword belt for himsel himself il that in a liis ilis s border raid into england ho he made men and women dance naked be foro him to the pricking of his ills lance that lie slew inga inra infants ints at their mothers breasts and burnt alive a whole school full of boys that he skulked when a formidable force was sent after him when driven into a corner coiner asked to be received into the kings Ws agn grace aee ace but refused to surrender unconditionally th that at when captured and conde condemned enned his fate was no more b barbarous ar barous than that he lie had inflicted on others that the seu sentence tenee tence against C him hith showed this a portion of it bein being that his ills bowels should be taken out and burnt ioven as he himself had burnt a church full of men and women according to this new version of liis ills history win bmw W must have been a very bad ogg egg egg I 1 11 and if sp it t is a sad waste of brine for fon hi highlanders High 1 landers fanders or lowlanders low landers landera scots or bie bic ts or of any other othen to shed tilled te tears r t to the memory of such sueh a it graceless rascal |
