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"Why, what's the matter?" said Lillie, "are you embarrassed at telling your age?" "Oh, nothing!" said John, writing down the numbers hastily; and then, finding a sudden occasion to give directions in the garden, he darted out. "It's so silly to be ashamed of our age!" said Lillie, as the census-taker withdrew.
She must be older than you." "Yes, and you, too!" cried Mrs. Maynard, with good-natured derision. "She doesn't look old," returned Mr. Libby. "She's twenty-eight. How old are you?" "I promised the census-taker not to tell till his report came out." "What is the color of her hair?" "Brown." "And her eyes?" "I don't know!" "You had better look out, Mr. Libby!" said Mrs.
I knocked on his meagre chest with my fore knuckle, and fetched forth a weak, gaspy cough; but he looked at me unflinchingly, much like a defiant sparrow held in the hand. "'I am the census-taker Time, I boomed in sepulchral tones. 'Beware lest I knock too loud. "'Oh, I don't know, he sneered. "Whereupon I rapped him smartly, and he choked and turned purplish.
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.
With this device in mind, very few minutes elapsed before the required information was secured, a rough guess made at the result, and the schedule finally filled out. As Hamilton rose to go, the girl said laughingly: "I think I should at least receive 'honorable mention' in the dispatches as a census-taker, the same as soldiers do in war."
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