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Show Schiller's Mean Revenge. When Schiller was a boy at school ho wns tormented by a Swiss tutor named Kupllg, who came from the Grlsons canton. Years later, when tho poet wrote "Tho Itobbers," ho revenged re-venged himself on Kupllg and tho Grlsons by Introducing this little speech: "To bo n scamp you must havo genius. Moreover, a special climate cli-mate Is needed for tho growth of scamps, and to provo this I recommend recom-mend you to visit tho Orisons canton. It Is tho vcrltablo Athens of modern rascality." In tho later editions of "The Kobbers" this quaint pit of spleen does not appear. It Is suggested that Schiller was not moved to expunge It by any remorseful feeling, but by a very foiclble protest from the residents resi-dents of tho abused canton against this calumny. |