The image he projects seems at home here in Iowa: the straight-shooter, the truth-teller, the unadorned Kansan from the prairie.

Scratches, Nicks and Snags (Figs 2.26, 2.35, 2.36). Angular tears, notches, or chiplike injuries in the surface of the rubber caused by sharp objects such as wire, pointed tools, staples. or other similar sharp-edged hazards.

I am truly sorry that I cannot accompany you in your ride this morning, owing to a violent pain in my face, arising from a wart to which I by medical advice applied a caustic. Whether I put too much, I do not know, but the consequence is, that not only I have been put to some pain, but the peccant part and its immediate environ are as black as if the printer's devil had marked me for an author.

Like a vampire it is rapidly sucking, through our young men, the very financial life blood from this nation, in so much that it bestaggers all efforts to totalize its direful influence.