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Show Ono Way to Lay a Ghost. "BUI Skimmins buried his father in a most unhandsome way very near his barn," said 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 laid in wait for him near his father'B grave on a dark night. "As Bill went by on his way from the barn the man rose up as if from the tomb and exclaimed in a ghostly voice, 'I'm jour father, Billl' ' 'Who said you warn'tl Bill answer- ed. 'Git down thar inter yer hole whar i yer belong!' and he Btruck him across the face with a bridle he was carrying such a rap that the would be alarmist j carried the scars for months." Lewis ton i Journal |