AN ECCENTRIC WILL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 161, 9 March 1871, Page 7

AN ECCENTRIC WILL.

The following (according to the " Toronto Globe" is the will of Dr. Dunlop at one time a member of the Legislature | for upper Canada :—": — " In the name of God. Amen. I, William Dunlop, of Gairbread, inihe township of Colbourne, county of Hurson, Western Canada, Esquire, being in sound health of body and mind, which my frinds who do not flatter me say is no great shakes at the best of times, do make 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, because she is married to nobody, nor is she likely to be, for she is an old maid, and not market rife. I leave to them and their heirs my share of the stock and implements on the farm, providing always that the enclosure round my brother's grave be reserved, and if either of them should die without issue the other is to inherit the whole. I leave to my sister-in-law Louisa Dunlop, all my share of the household furniture aud such traps, with the excep tions hereafter mentioned. Heave my silvertankardtotheoldesbson of old John, as the repi'esentative of the family. T would have left it to old John himself, but he would have melted it down to make temperance medals, and that would have been sacrilege. However, I 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-great-grandmother, Betsey Hamilton, of Woodhall, and when she knows as much of the spirit as she does of the letter she will be a much better Christian than she is. I leave my late brother's watch to my brother Sandy, exhorting him at the same time to give up Whiggery and Radicalism, and all sins that do most easily beset him. 3 leave my brother-in-law, Allan, my punch-bowl as he is a big gaucy man, and likely to do it credit. ( leave to Parson Chevasie ray big silver snuffbox I got from the JSimeoe Militia, as a small token of my gratitude to him for taking my sister Maggie, whom no man of sense would have taken. 1 leave to John Caddell a silver tea-pot, to the end that he may drink tea therefrom to comfort him under the aflietion of a slatternly wife. I leave my books to my brother Andrew, ''(.'cause he has been jiugling wailv, that he may yet learn to read them."