successfully try, in this way, to give the finishing stroke to our pictures, hang up our weaknesses
A Female Skeleton,
A Dried Cockatrice.
Item, To my Daughter Elizabeth,
My Receipt for preserving dead Caterpillars,
As also my Preparations of Winter May-Dew, and Embrio Pickle.
Item, to my little Daughter Fanny,
Three Crocodiles’ Eggs.
And upon the Birth of her first Child, if she marries with her Mother’s Consent,
The Nest of a Humming Bird.
Item, To my eldest Brother, as an acknowledgment for the Lands he has vested in my Son Charles, I bequeath
My last Year’s Collection of Grasshoppers.
Item, To his Daughter Susanna, being his only Child, I bequeath my
English Weeds pasted on Royal Paper,
With my large Folio of Indian Cabbage.
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Having fully provided for my Nephew Isaac, by making over to him some years since
A horned Scarabœus,
The Skin of a Rattle-Snake, and
The Mummy of an Egyptian King,
I make no further Provision for him in this my Will.
My eldest Son John having spoken disrespectfully of his little Sister, whom I keep by me in Spirits of Wine, and in many other Instances behaved himself undutifully towards me, I do disinherit, and wholly cut off from any Part of this my Personal Estate, by giving him a single Cockle-Shell.
