Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — One Way to Lay a Ghost. [ARTICLE]

One Way to Lay a Ghost.

Lewiston Journal. “Bill Skimmins buried his father in a most unhandsome way very near his barn,” Baid the man at the other end of the table. The neighbors thought it was a shame and made a good deal of talk about it One of them thought he would punish Bill by scaring him, and lay in wait for him near his father’s grave on a dark night “As Bill went by on his way lrom the barn the man rase up as if from the tomb, and exclaimed in a ghostly voice: ‘l’m your father, Bill!’ ~ “‘Who said you wariTt?’ Bill answered. 'Git down thar inter yer hole whar yer belong!’ and he struck him across the face with a bridle he was carrying such a rap that the wonld-be alarmist carried the scar for months.