November 18th Apple or Son the Arrow's Mark Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805). Wilhelm Tell. Vol. 26, pp. 441-449 of The Harvard Classics The arrow shot from his bow with a twang and whizzed through the air. Tell covered his eyes, fearing to see where the arrow hit. Then the shout of triumph, a shout of the people and not of the tyrant-but the end was not yet. (William Tell incident, legendary date, Nov. 18, 1307.)