[Transcriber's note:

    William Tell Told Again

   is two children's books
in one. One is a picture book—16 full-color illustrations by Philip
Dadd described in verse by John W. Houghton. The other is a humorous
novel by P. G. Wodehouse, based on the picture book. The novel has a
lengthier storyline, a more intricate plot, and more characterization.
The bound volume intermingled the picture book with the novel,
illustrations and poems appearing at regular intervals. Most pictures
and verses were distant from the page of the novel that they reflected.

   For this text version, placeholders for the illustrations (with plate
numbers) have been inserted following the paragraph in the novel that
describes the events being illustrated. The verse descriptions of the
illustrations, labelled with plate numbers, have been moved to the end
of the novel, so as not to disrupt the story. Each verse also has an
illustration placeholder that includes the phrase from the novel shown
as a description on the List of Illustrations.]

   [Illustration: Frontispiece]

   1904

   [Dedication]

   TO BIDDY O'SULLIVAN

   FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

   SOMETIMES IT WAS ONLY A BIRD [Frontispiece]

   GESSLER'S METHODS OF PERSUASION [Plate I]

   THEY WOULD MARCH ABOUT, BEATING TIN CANS AND SHOUTING [Plate II]

   AN EGG FLEW ACROSS THE MEADOW, AND BURST OVER LEUTHOLD'S SHOULDER

   [Plate III]

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