The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
For he often said to his wife, as they sat of an evening by the fire-side in the dark, for as the leddy was no seamstress, and he had as little taste for literature, of course, they burned no candles when by themselves, and that was almost every night,--'I marvel, Girzy, what could gar your father put that most unsafe claw in his entail.