The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'I dinna need Mr. Whitteret, nor ony siclike, to instruct me in terms o' law--for I got an inkling and an instinct o' the whole nine points frae my worthy father, that was himsel bred an advocate, and had more law-pleas on his hands when he died than ony ither three lairds in Carrick, Coil, and Cunningham.