Arkansas Gazette March 28, 1838 Vol. XIX - No. 15 - Whole No. 1110 Cousins - There's nothing like a cousin; it is the sweetest relation in human nature. There is no excitement in loving your sister, and courting a lady in the face of a stranger, requires the nerve of a martyr; but your dear familiar cousin, with her provoking maidenly reserve, with her bewitching freedoms, and romping frolics, and the stolen tenderness, over the skein of silk that will get tangled - and then the long rides which nobody talks about, and then the long tête-à-têtes, which are nobody's business, and the long letters which no body pays the postage; no there is nothing like a cousin, a young, gay, beautiful witch of a cousin!   (Editor's note: Could this have been the start of our reputation?)