HANS THE BENEDICK. 
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thing like duty, I was very fond of him. But the 
story was everywhere the same. Hans the faithful_ 
yet, I fear, the faithless—was last seen upon a native 
sledge, driving south from Peteravik, with a maiden at 
his side, and professedly bound to a new principality 
at Uwarrow Suk-suk, high up Murchison’s Sound. 
Adas for Hans, the married man! 
F I E L D-G EAR. 
