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50 THE GRINDER PAPERS. NUMBER SIX. CHARITY DINES AT THE KITTIKINS’. Keep me from intellectable folks all the days o’ my life! Ive had enough of ’em to last. Ketch me to Cousin Kittikins agin. , He ain't exackly a cousins, but, you see, his mother’s aunt kept company with our Uncle Bobkins quite a spell, when she was a gal; and they'd hev been married, only he jilted her, and she sued him for breach o’ promise of marriage, and took the money he was compelled to pay for breakin’ her heart, to furnish with when she married Mr. Shad. So, you see, we're sort 0 con- nected. RY Cousin Kittikins was allers considered a smart boy when he lived up our way. Took to writin’, and had a lot o’ stuff re- gardin’ the moon, published in the Saturday Evenin’ Shower-. bath, and went away to York to seek his fortune when he was goin’ on nineteen. We heerd from him now and then, and when he married he sent us a bit o weddin’ cake and a couple o cards. | _ His wife was mighty intellectable too, they said, and was in the habit o’ lecturin’. | Bakes Well, since that party at Sary’s, things has been “unpleasant