The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
I'll no say ye hae defrauded him o' his birthright, for the property was your ain--but if ye drive him forth the shop, and cast him wi' his sma' family on the scrimp mercy of mankind, I would be wanting to human nature in general, if I did na say it was most abominable, and that you yoursel, wi' a' your trumpery o' Walkinshaws and Kittlestonheughs, ought to be scourged by the hands o' the hangman.