Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Pat and the Ghost. [ARTICLE]

Pat and the Ghost.

An Irishman was relating to some friends in London how one night on retiring to bed he fancied he saw a ghost, and having a gun ready at hand he fired at ft. Next morning he examined the object he had fired at and discovered It was his own shirt. “What did you do then?” exclaimed one of the company. “Begorra,” said Pat, “I just went down on my knees and thanked Providence I wasn’t inside It. so I did.”