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Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail. Often a tumble-down hovel where three would seem a crowd yielded up more than a dozen inmates, many of whom, being at work, must be looked for later the "back-calls" that is the bete-noire of the census enumerator.
But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book. Many a long-sought negro I roused from his holiday siesta, dashing past the tawdry calico curtains to pound him awake mere auricular demonstration having only the effect of lulling him into deeper child-like slumber.
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