The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
Which prediction was in our own day and generation to a great degree fulfilled; at the time, however, it only served to move the pawkie cloth-merchant to say,  'Nae doubt, Cornie, the world's like the tod's whelp, ay the aulder the waur; but I trust we'll hear news in the land before the like o' that comes to pass.