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"I came to see you, little girl," said Miss Jerusha severely, seating herself stiffly by Polly's side. "Thank you, ma'am," said Polly, faintly. "Who's this boy?" asked the lady, turning around squarely on Joel, and eying him from head to foot. "He's my brother Joel," said Polly. Joel still stared. "Which brother?" pursued Miss Jerusha, like a census-taker.
Dawn had come up in Columbus Circle, magical, breathless dawn, silhouetting the great statue of the immortal Christopher, and mingling in a curious and uncanny manner with the fading yellow electric light inside. Mr. In and Mr. Out are not listed by the census-taker. You will search for them in vain through the social register or the births, marriages, and deaths, or the grocer's credit list.
But there was one calculation forgotten both by Miss Lucinda and Israel: the pig would grow, and in consequence, as I said before, Miss Lucinda came to grief; for when the census-taker tinkled her sharp little door-bell, it called her from a laborious occupation at the sty, no more and no less than trying to nail up a board that Piggy had torn down in struggling to get out of his durance.
The statistics of idiocy are necessarily imperfect. No United States census or State enumeration is at all reliable; the idea of what constitutes idiocy is so very vague, that one census-taker would report none, in a district where another might find twenty.
"It's a relief to hear somebody say that," answered the young census-taker with a laugh, "because I hear a dozen times a day the complaint that no one could be expected to know as much about a business as these schedules require."
He wished her to be alive to everything, but without suspiciously scrutinizing details, like a census-taker. To appreciate did not seem to him properly to mean to assess. Miss Holland, he would have said, seemed to live by the beats of her heart and not by the waves of her hair but another proof, perhaps, of "if thou likest her opinions thou wilt praise her virtues."
Her reception of him was cold and severe, and she answered his questions regarding her health as if he were a census-taker, exhibiting not the slightest gratitude for his concern regarding her physical well-being, nor the slightest hesitation in giving him information which might enable him to further said well-being.
The census-taker enters a night lodging-house; in the basement he finds a man dying of hunger, and he politely inquires his profession, his name, his native place, the character of his occupation, and after a little hesitation as to whether he is to be entered in the list as alive, he writes him in and goes his way. And thus will the two thousand young men proceed. This is not as it should be.
Noah was terribly sensitive as to her age, and the same census-taker would never venture twice within her precincts.
Without havin' the decency to take off his own hat, or even ask Kent's permission to speak to him, the census man began askin' questions, all kinds, as those damnable fellows do. Colonel Kent let him ramble on for a while, then he brought him up standin'. "'Who did you say you were, suh? "'The United States census-taker. "'Ah, a message from the enemy. Take a seat on the grass.
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