ABSTRACT
Some days after the funeral of Mr. Charles Douglas his will was examined. It bequeathed the landed property, unincumbered, to the heir at law. The pecuniary was equally divided among the other children, after deducting legacies of three hundred pounds each to our hero and his sister. Mr. James Douglas, now Laird of Tay Bank, wished his nephew to remain with him and to be educated under his eye by a private tutor. He was resolved, he said, never to marry, as he was already near fifty, and he did not suppose his brother in India would marry more than he; that, therefore, he had no doubt, but the Colonel, and, after him, Charles, would be proprietor of the estate. The same master will, from his knowledge of the talents and dispositions of his several scholars, from adherence to the same plan and mode of execution, always be more useful teacher to those scholars than different master equally qualified.
