But a wiser man has arisen--thecensus taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."

Though so short a period ago --not a good life-time --thecensus of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded thecensus of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan.

But Plato, in his treatise of Laws, thinks that a difference in circumstances should be permitted to a certain degree; but that no citizen should be allowed to possess more than five times as much as the lowestcensus, as we have already mentioned.

Whereas now, in one moment of audition, I take as it were thecensus and statistics, local, corporeal, mental and spiritual, of every living being in Lineland.

According to Dr Mguni, the district commissioners have a fundamental role to play during the censuses as they oversee thecensus programme and its implementation at district level as well as being responsible for authorising districtcensus procurement.

Why shouldcensus officials not count residents in the daytime?