Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1916 — GETS SCARE OF HIS LIFE [ARTICLE]

GETS SCARE OF HIS LIFE

Thought It a Skeleton Rattling, But It Was Oply Two Screech ( Owls. • - Falmouth, Ky.—J. T. McNay of Short Creek had "the scare of his life recently about 12:30 o’clock at night. He thought his time had come when he was awakened by what he thought was the rattling of a skeleton at the head of hf& bed. When he -collected his wits he found that it was two screech owls sitting on the head of his bed cracking their jaws and making a lot of noise with their claws. When Mr. McNay raised up out of bed to answer “the call” of old St. Peter, as he thought It was, the two -owls flew against! the window. Then it was that Mr. McNay took a new lease on life, as he knew what it was. Mr. McNay says the owls were black with soot and he supposed that they were sitting on top of the chimney and got to fussing and fell down the chimney and into the room.