Testamentary Arrangements

"The testamentary arrangements of eccentric people must, from time to time, have put their legatees in possession of some very queer property. I call to mind an old gentleman who bequeathed to a distant relative the products of a lifetime of indiscrimate [sic] collecting; which products included an obsolete field gun, a stuffed camel, a collection of bottled tapeworms, a fire engine, a church pulpit and the internal fittings of a public-house bar. And other instances could be quoted." (p.115)

Freeman, R. Austin. The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta. New York: Bookfinger, 1974.