Curiously enough, this rock was not degraded or defiled in any way.

It is said that two years ago a stranger let himself down from the top of it with ropes and pulleys, and painted all over it, in blue letters bigger than those in Schiller's name, these words: "Try Sozodont;" "Buy Sun Stove Polish;" "Helmbold's Buchu;" "Try Benzaline for the Blood." He was captured and it turned out that he was an American.

Upon his trial the judge said to him: "You are from a land where any insolent that wants to is privileged to profane and insult Nature, and, through her, Nature's God, if by so doing he can put a sordid penny in his pocket.

But here the case is different.

Because you are a foreigner and ignorant, I will make your sentence light; if you were a native I would deal strenuously with you.