Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Kirby’s Ghost. [ARTICLE]

Kirby’s Ghost.

Jim Kirby set it up with some of the other young fellows that it would be a good idea to scare old Kreutzer, the Ger man farmer who lives Just out beyond the village. And so one night when Kreutzer had been in town drinking beer with his friends, Kirby got a sheet and hied to the Methodist graveyard, which lies by the side of the road which Kreutzer had to take on his way home. Kreutzer came along about eleven o’clock, and as soon as be came up to the graveyard fence, Kirby slipped the sheetoverhis head and around him, and jumped up on a tombstone. For a minute Kreutzer was startled, and, jumping back*, he exclaimed: Py sliiminy! vot’s dat?” A moment later his dog began to climb through the fence, and Kreutzer concluded to go over after him in order to investigate this spiritual phenomenonThen the ghost suddenly began to get down off of the tombstone. But as it fled, Kreutzer’a dog arrived and began to taste its near leg. Then Kreutzer came up and shoved the ghost over against Gen. Bummer’s monur rent. Then the Geiman gentleman sat on the specter, while the Teutonic dog gnawed away at that leg. Finally, Kirby begged for mercy, and as Kreutzer rose ana called off his dog, he •aid; “Py Bborge l l pellets in ghosts, put I nefer yet see a goplin dat I couldn’t shake de efferlastin liner out of—ven I got holt of him!” Kirby has given up spiritualism and gone into the arnica and court-plaster business. —Max Adeler, inM. Y. Weekly.