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of the Schedules as witness this criticism of the procedure :—“ Dis d— 
*tupid “torey ; put um name paper, again bring um house lef um, again come 
house tek um, wha’s matter no one time do um all wo'k.”’ 
He was blackand he was aggressive and he asserted that he was unable to fill 
up his schedule, so the Enumerator proceeded to doit for him but when the “Read 
and Write” column was reached and the obliging official proposed to fill 
in the answers in the negative, he stoutly protested :—** Read and write,” quoth 
he, “mean fo’ sign yo’ name and read yo’ Bible, but no’ fo’ full up papah lika 
dis ; put me down ‘ Reader and Writer.’ ” 
That she was possessed of tact in no mean degree was revealed by the answer 
of an old floor-scrubber who “ did mek she livin’ by washin de white people 
houses.”’ Asked to state her religion, she explained that it ‘‘depen’ ‘pon de 
white people dem. Ef a wo’k wida Roman Cat’olic ah is Roman Chu’ch, ef a 
wo’k wid a Wesleen ah is Wesleen, an’ ifawo’k wid a Scotchman a is Scotch 
Chu’ch. Yo’ see in dese days yo’ got fo’ cut yo’ clath wid de measure. ’’ 
Yet another episode illustrative of the trials of the Enumerator. In his day he 
had been anindustrious propagator of his species and he kept the Enumerator 
busy filling in the names and particulars of his reproductive excesses in the end 
to inform the perspiring penman with a bland smile, “Dey doesn’t live home 
wid me doagh,” and was proceeding to give their various addresses before the 
indignant Enumerator could recover his composure sufficiently to stop him. 
When another Enumerator remonstrated with a woman for not having been at 
home on Sunday night to fill up her schedule she indignantly retorted, ‘‘ An’ why 
de Guvna didn’t stan’ home Sunday night ; ent he bin pienicing up de Lemonhatl ? 
He is de very body to show we good example, but because | black and po’ you come 
wid yo’ rudeness to me.” 
Various and instructive have been the particulars supplied under the heading 
of “ Infirmities.”” ‘Sick with sore foot,” “troubling with pain,” “me no deaf, 
me eye good,’ are some of the picturesque and superfluous details furnished ; 
and one individual, a product of our expensive system of elementary 
education, described the ‘“‘ Race’’ to which the belonged as ‘ mix bread ” 
(mixed breed). In not afew instances the term “ spinster’’ has been used to 
describe their ‘‘ occupation ” by ladies who are evidently in quest of husbands. 
But it has not always been Quashie or Sammy who has been responsible 
for stating the required information in “ unofficial” form. It is recorded of one 
Enumerator that, having described an individual on the Census paper as “ half 
blind,” and on being asked what he meant by the expression, he gave as an ex- 
planation that the man in question was possessed of only one eye! 
