The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
ye ken what a straemash happened in the Glengowlmahallaghan family, by reason o' the Laird holographing his codicil; whilk, to be sure, was a dreadfu' omission, as my cousin, his wife, fand in her widowhood; for a' the moveables thereby gaed wi' the heritage to his auld son by the first wife--even the vera silver pourie that I gied her mysel wi' my own hands, in a gift at her marriage--a' gaed to the heir.'