[PREFACE]
[CHAPTER I—A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY]
[CHAPTER II—RESCUING A LOST RACE]
[CHAPTER III—A MANUFACTORY OF RIFLES]
[CHAPTER IV—THE BOY LEADER OF A CRUSADE]
[CHAPTER V—"DON'T DEPORT MY OLD MOTHER!"]
[CHAPTER VI—THE NEGRO CENSUS FROM THE SADDLE]
[CHAPTER VII—HOBOES ON THE TRAMP]
[CHAPTER VIII—THE CENSUS HEROES OF THE FROZEN NORTH]
[CHAPTER IX—CONFRONTED WITH THE BLACK HAND]
[CHAPTER X—RIOTS AROUND A CITY SCHOOL]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Statue of Liberty (Frontispiece)]
[Taking the Census in Old Kentucky]
[Kentucky Mountaineer Family]
[Moonshining] [2]
[Bill Wilsh's Home in the Gully]
[Bill Wilsh in the School]
[Alligator-Catching]
[The Census Building]
[Making Gun-sights True]
["A Bull's-eye Every Time!"]
[Young Boys from the Pit]
["I 'ain't Seen Daylight for Two Years"]
[Eight Years Old and "Tired of Working"]
[The Biggest Liner in the World Coming in]
[Immigration Station, Ellis Island]
[Where the Workers Come from]
[On a Peanut Farm]
[In an All-Negro Town] [2]
["'Way down Yonder in de Cotton Fiel'"]
[How Most of the Negroes Live]
[Facsimile of Punched Census Card]
[Tabulating Machine]
[Pin-box and Mercury Cups]
[Over the Trackless Snow with Dog-team]
[The Census in the Aleutian Islands]
["Can We Make Camp?"]
[To Eskimo Settlements by Reindeer]
[Gathering Cocoanuts]
[Taking the Census in a City]
[Festa in the Italian Quarter]
[The Fighting Men of the Tongs]
[Arrested as the Firing Stops]
[Work for Americans] [2]

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THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS

CHAPTER I

A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY

"Uncle Eli," said Hamilton suddenly, "since I'm going to be a census-taker, I think I'd like to apply for this district."