This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_906255178_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII oh, gee... Cyndi --part0_906255178_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.tcsn.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (rly-zc05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.5]) by air-zc02.mail.aol.com (v50.5) with SMTP; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:19:19 -0400 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id RAA22492; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:13:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22450; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:08:27 -0700 Old-To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] From: "Richard D.Reddick" <[email protected]> Subject: [RUTLEDGE-L] Census Substitute Resent-Message-ID: <"vI_WiB.A.beF.N4BB2"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/4689 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Rooters: This enjoyable piece was sent to me by a fairly experienced family genealogist on the new Daly/D400 list this morning. Have you seen this before? Seems as if something similar went across the lists awhile back. Earlier reference to census takers maybe meant just as humor. Wonder if this one is genuine, anyone heard of an "Artemus Ward" book, 1888. Appreciate your input, Richard >Subject: Census Substitute > >Richard- > >I think that most of the census takers were substitutes. Some of the errors >in them are almost as bad as this substitute. > >>> Bought an old book dated 1888 by Artemus Ward. It was about >>> his adventurous journey across the United States with his >>> travelling show. One chapter is on taking the Federal Census. >>> Read on.... >>> >>> 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 list of >>> questions which I proposed to ax the peple I visited: >>> >>> - Wat's your age? >>> >>> - Whar was you barn? >>> How many parents have you? >>> Hav you a twin brother several years older than yourself? >>> How many chickins hav you, on foot and in shell? >>> >>> - Air you marrid, and if so how do you like it? >>> How many children hav you, and do they sufficiently >>> resemble you as to proclood the possibility of their >>> belongin to any of your nabers? >>> >>> - Did you ever hav the measels, and if so how many? >>> Air you trubeld with biles? >>> State whether you air blind, deaf, idiotic or got the >>> heaves. >>> >>> - Do you read Watt's Hims regler? >>> Do you use boughten tobacker? >>> Wat's your fightin wate? >>> Is Beans a regler article of diet in your family? >>> >>> - Air you aware that Indianny whisky is used in New York? >>> Was you ever at Niagry Falls? Was you ever in the >>> Penitentiary? >>> >>> Well, I got into a row at the first house I stopt to with some >>> old maids. Disbeliven the answers they giv regardin their ages, >>> I endevered to open their mouths and look at their teeth, same as >>> they do with hosses, but they floo into a vilent rage and tackled >>> me with brooms and sich. All goes to show that takin the sences >>> requires experiunse, like any other bizniss > > ==== RUTLEDGE Mailing List ==== Sharing and learning and growing our trees together. To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the Rutledge Family mailing list, send a message to [email protected] In the message and in the subject line put the single word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) and nothing else. --part0_906255178_boundary--