GHOST JOKE
HAS SERIOUS ENDING
LONDON, No-. 12. A, practical joker, disguised as a ghost, so terrified a young sentry at Deal Barracks that the latter lunged forward with his bayonet and fainted when he discovered that he had seriously stabbed a comrade. The injured man, Private Smith, who is the father of newly-born twins, is an old soldier, while the sentry is a recruit. A iocal legend asserts that the spirit of a marine buried in an adjacent cemetery parades the barracks annually. Smith told the recruit the story and then dressed himself as the ghost. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10260, 2 December 1926, Page 6
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97GHOST JOKE Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10260, 2 December 1926, Page 6
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