In childhood As a child Kevin was
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^|aAs an infant Shortly after being coming into the world^{a| |a}The little stranger^a| Kevineen delighted himself by playing with the sponge on tubbing night wh. As a growing boy ^|aunder the influence of holy religion which had been instilled into him across his grandmother's knee^a| he grew more & more pious and abstracted like the time God knows he sat down on the plate of mutton broth.

He simply had no time for girls and often used to say ^|ato his dear mother & dear sisters^a| that his dearest mother & his dear sisters were good enough for him. At the age of six ^|ayears & six months^a| he wrote a prize essay on kindness to fishes.