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Runners and Heiduques. Heiduques were Hungarian and Sclavonian servants, dressed in the costume of their country. In some of the great houses of Germany, where a vestige of feudal manners yet exists, they may still be found, as well as runners, who, as the name implies, run before their master’s carriages.

Honey, as the reader may know, is a dainty with the bear.

To redeem the bride. It was customary, in ancient Germany, for the bridegroom to appear in person at the residence of his intended, to make a present to his future father-in-law, and bear away the bride.