AN ECCENTRIC WILL.

Southland Times, Issue 1182, 15 December 1869, Page 2

AN ECCENTRIC WILL.

The following (according to the Toronto Globe) is ( the will, of Dr Dunlop, atone time a member of the Legislature for Upper Canada :—" In the name of God. Amen. I, William Dunlop, of GTairbread, in the. township of Colborne, county, of Heron, Western Canada, Esquire, being in; sound health of iyoAf anil mind, which my friends who do not flatter me say is no great shakes at the best of times, do made? my last will and testament as follows, revoking, of course, all former wills. I .leave the property of Gairbread and all' ; other property I may be possessed of to my sisters, Helen' Boyle Story,: and Elizabeth: Boyle, Dunlop, the former because - she is married to a minister (who . may God help him) she • henpecks; the latter becku-.e 1 she ';' is married to xibbody, nor is she likely* to x be, for she is an old' maid, 1 annL not market .rife-. And alsol.leareto them and their - -heirs -my- -share of— the stock -and—implements- on tbefarmj provi4ing r alwaye that .■,-. ; . i > /Xj.Ti ■. • *I7:«* t . A '-* *-* -<->■ the enclosure round my brother s grave be reserved, arid if - either of them should die without iasWtKe r ot Her i» to* f inherit the whole. I I leaved to inyi -s_Lster-m-law, Louisa Dunlop, allmy share ofthe household furniture and^such traps,, with., the exceptions hereafter mentioned.^ 'X leave my silver tankard to the oldest son of old John',- as the representative^f ; the (family. I * fvould- h_W left it ta old- John himself, but he, would have melted it down 'to! make temperance medals/ and that Wotild have been a sacrilege. > -However, JY leave him my big horn' snuff-box— he can only make temperance horn spoons out of that. ; I leave my . sister Jenny my Bible,, the property formerly of my great-gre»t-grand •; mother Betsey. Hamilton, of Woodhall, and, when; -she knows as much of the spirit as she does of the letter, she will be a much belter Christian- than^ she^is^** I leave my .iatq , brother's watch to my brother Sandy, exhorting him at the same time to give up Wbigg*ery and Radicalism, and all other .sins that do most easily beset him. yIA leave my brother-in-law, Allan, my punch-bowl, as he is a big j gaucy man, and likely, to docreditto it. I leave i'to' Parson CHevassie iny^ big silver snuff-box I got from the Siracoe Militia as a small token of my gratitude to him for taking my sister Maggie, whom no iman of tasjte would haye taken./ I leave to John Caddel a silver teapot, to the end that her may drink tea) therefrom to comfort him under the affliction of a slatternly wife. : 1 I leaveJmy books to my brother Andrew because he has been jingling wally, that he may yet* learn to read with them. I leave my silver cup, with tlie sovereign in the bottom of it, to my sister, Janet Graham Dunlop, because she is an old maid and pious, and therefore necessarily given to horning, and also my grandmothers snuff-box, as it looks decent to see an olcTmaid taking snofi. 1 ' ■ ■ - ' -*• i •'* ~,- . >

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