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In April, Wehby was the front-runner; now, she is trailing badly and Oregon is safely in the D column.

To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.

And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.

President Lincoln had declared a blockade of the Southern ports as soon as the war had started.

The tumbled masses of slate-stratum fallen over one another was a proof that the blockade had been recently made.

The sea trade of the country had been destroyed by the vigorous blockade which the Dutch ships of war maintained along the coast.