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The poor printer gulped and sputtered when he saw the census form to fill out. How many lbs. of coated paper, ? uncoated ? flewsprint? how many lbs. of ink used during the year? how many revolutions of the press? how many • mice behind : the paste can? and ' what were the prevailing colors of the type lit* between the hours of 3:37 and 4.26 on August 17?
There was no sense in it—but we take it all back and swear we didn’t say it after we saw one triple-fold 19” x 33" form (both sides) sent to the poor ; farmer I
Say, neighbor I how many eggs did your chickens lay or : will lay this year? Wha’sa’ matta? Can’t you tell? Heck! any farmer oughts be able to count the eggs before they’rfe layedl
Junior is gonna haf to miss school, we fear. His farmer father is gorina send him out to count the ’simmons on the farm. Little Susie can’t go to school, neither. 'Mi's got her counting the sweet ’taten. The government’s gota know how many we got. After all the items on the farm are counted, the whole family can gather ’round the kitchen table and add 8b (what’s that, the pigs?) to 17c (is them rise jimson weeds behind the bam?), multiply by 34x minus 14y over 7q. (wait a minute, pal I’ve broke my pencil point!) then divide the total to the sum of 14m (subtracted from 39d (now, where was I?).. , . .i. : jit _ - , I** ' Someone told me that a lot:« people voted the Republican tide* et thinking a lot of tom-fool government paper-work would ;be abolished. Bro-o-ther! We Demo* crats were pikers at that game! & We fine up with some dillses in income-tax forma, but we* hang our heads in shame after seeing that farmer's census form! ,
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