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THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS
BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
[Illustration: The Boy With the U.S. Census]
With Thirty-eight Illustrations, principally from
Bureaus of the United States Government

November, 1911


To My Son Roger's Friend
HAMILTON DAY


PREFACE
Life in America to-day is adventurous and thrilling to the core. Border
warfare of the most primitive type still is waged in mountain
fastnesses, the darkest pages in the annals of crime now are being
written, piracy has but changed its scene of operations from the sea to
the land, smugglers ply a busy trade, and from their factory prisons a
hundred thousand children cry aloud for rescue. The flame of Crusade
sweeps over the land and the call for volunteers is abroad.
In hazardous scout duty into these fields of danger the Census Bureau
leads.
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