The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
She then seated herself in the chair opposite her husband, and while she at the same time tied her cloak and placed on her bonnet, she said,--  'I'll alloo at last, gudeman, that I hae been a' my days in an error, for I could na hae believed that Watty was sic an idiot o' a naturalist, had I no lived to see this day.