This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8F696DA54DA0538FFE4AAFC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am forwarding this from another list because I thought it was so cute!!! --------------8F696DA54DA0538FFE4AAFC0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from carus-z.mspring.net (carus-z.mspring.net [207.69.193.38]) by spanky.lancom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA17833 for <judysasha@lancom.net>; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:59:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by carus-z.mspring.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12947 for judysasha@lancom.net; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lsvmlr.uky.edu (lsvmlr.uky.edu [128.163.1.37]) by carus-z.mspring.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03419 for <judy@NTACUSTOMJEWELERS.COM>; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:59:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lsv (lsv.uky.edu) by lsvmlr.uky.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.FFFCBBA5@lsvmlr.uky.edu>; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 8:59:28 -0400 Received: from LSV.UKY.EDU by LSV.UKY.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 130830585 for KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:59:27 -0400 Received: from 204.189.84.2 by LSV.UKY.EDU (SMTPL release 1.0d) with TCP; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:59:27 -0400 Received: from searnet.com (dan10-pm5.searnet.com [208.130.75.217]) by mail.searnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2 SEARNet your gateway to the world!!! Have a nice day.) with ESMTP id IAA00366 for <KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU>; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:59:25 -0400 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <37EA23C5.EC9D8C7F@searnet.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:57:41 -0400 Reply-To: abaker@searnet.com Sender: Kentucky Genealogy & History Discussions <KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU> From: Anne <abaker@searnet.com> Subject: The Census Taker - To: KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 The Owensboro (Ky) Monitor - September 10, 1862 The Census Taker The Sences Taker in our town, bein taken sick he deppertised me to go out for him one day and as he was too ill to giv me informashun how to perceed. I was consekently compelled to go it blind. Sittin down by the road side I drawd up the follerin lists of questions which I proposed to ax the people I visited: Wat's your age? Whar was you born? Air you marrid and if so how do you like it? How many children have you and do they sufficiently resemble you as to proclood the possibility of their belongin to any of your nabers? Did you ever have the measels and if so how many? Have you a twin brother several years older than yourself? How many parents have you? Do you read Watt's Him regler? Do you use boughten tobacker? Wat's you fitin wate? Air you troubled with biles? How does your meresham culler? State whether you are blind, deaf, idiotic or got the heaves. Do you know any Opry singers and if so how much do they owe you? Wat's the average of virtoo on the Ery Canawl? If 4 barrils of Emptins pored onto a barn floor will kiver it how many plase can Dion Bouriecault write in a year? Is beans a regler article of diet in your family? How many chickens hav you, on foot or in the shell? Air you aware that Injianny whiskey is used in New York shootin galrys instid of pistills and that it shoots furthest? Was you ever at Niagry Falls? Was you ever in the Penitentiary? State how much pork, impendin crysis, Dutch Cheeze, popler suvrinty, Standard poetry, chidrens strainer's, catnip, red flannel, ancient histry, pickled tomaters, old junk, perfoomery, coaloile, liberty, hoop skirts have you on hand? But it didn't work. I got into a row the fust house I stopt to, with some old maids. Disbelieven the answers they giv in regard to their ages I endevered to open their mouths and look at their teeth, same as they do with horses, but they floo into a vilent rage and tackled me with brooms and sich. Takin the sences requires experiense, like any other biziniss. [taken from Kentucky Pioneer Genealogy & Records - July 1981] --------------8F696DA54DA0538FFE4AAFC0--