The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28

all other lands and property I may die
possessed Of to my sisters Helen Boyle
Story and Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop; the
former because she is married to a min
lister who God help him y she henpecks;
the latter because she is married to no
body, nor is she like toe~b be, for she is
an old maid, and not marketfife.
L leave my silver tankard to the eldest
son Of old John, as the representative
of the family. / would have left it to
old John himself, but he would melt it
down to make temperance medals, and
that would be saerilege. However, I
leave my big horn snuff box to him; he
can only make temperance horn spoons
of that, l leave my sister Jenny my
Bible, the property formerly of my
great-grand-mother. Bertha Hamilton,
of Woodhall; and when she knows as
much of the spirit of it as she does Z
the letter she will be another guise
Christian than she is. I also leave ny
late brothers watch to my brother San
dy, exhorting him at the same time 10
give up Whiggery, Radicalism, and ell
other sins that do most easily beset him
I leave my brother Alan my big silver
snuff box, as I am informed he is rather
a decent Christian, with swag belly
and jolly face. I leave Parson Chew
asse (Mag's husband) the snuff box
got from the Sarnia Militia, as a small
token of my gratitude for the service
ne has done the family in taking a
sister that no man of taste would have
taken. I leave John Caddie a silver
teapot to the end that he may drink
tea therefrom to comfort him under the
affection of a slatternly wife. I leave
my books to my brother Andrew, ',e-
cause he has been so long a Jungley
| Wallah (bushman) that he may learn
| to read with them. 1 give my silver
! cup with sovereign in it to my sister
| Janet Graham Dunlop, because she is an
| old maid and pious and therefor 9
! will necessarily take to horning. And
also my grandma's snuff null, as it looks
decent to see an old woman taking
| snuff
This was duly signed, and an import
| ant codicil afterward added, but in def
erence to a friend who doubted it's va
| lidity he took advice on the subject
| The friend who examined it pronounced
it eccentric, but not on that account
| Illegal or informal. However,, his widow
| was often in the law courts afterwards,
her motto being, "NNe'lI fecht it oot!"
OF far more amiahle, although Of
! ten silly, kind are the wills which effect
pet animals. A Mrs. Hannah White, in
| 1898, left S25 per annum to the mother
| of one of her servants for the main
! tenance of five cats during the course
| of their natural lives. But this lady, it
4 should be observed, also left S1,e00 each
{, to two hospitals, legacies to her domes-
tics, and the residue of her estate, which
was considerable, to her doctor, or
apothecary, as he was called in those
days Her relatives appealed against
the will: and in the sequel the apothe-
cary's claim was struck out but the
other MISUNDERSTANDING the bequest
I to the eats-were confirmed.
Elizabeth Hunter, wealthy spinster,
was at great pains to provide for the
| future of a pet bird: ct give and be-
queath to my beloved parrot, the faith
| full companion of twenty-five years, an
annuity for its life of 200 guineas a year,
| to be paid half yearly, as long as this
| beloved parrot lives. And do
bequeath to Mrs. Mary Dyer, widow, my
foresaid parrot. with its annuity of 200
| guineas a year. And l give to
/ Mrs. Mary Dyer the power to will and
| bequeath my parrot and its annuity to
| whomsoever she pleases. provided that
| person is neither a. servant nor man;
i it must be bequeathed to some respect
| able female. And I also will and
| desire that 20 guineas may be paid to
Mrs. Dyer directly on my death, TO be
expended on very high, long and large
1 cage for the aforesaid parrot; it is also
my Will and desire that my parrot shall
not be removed out Of England