LAYING A GHOST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 167, 20 April 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

LAYING A GHOST.

A story is told in Mr. Arthur H. Engelbach's "Anecdotes of Pulpit and Parish" of the way in which Dr. Thomson, Archbishop of York, once exorcised a ghost. He was visiting at the tune, and had been put into a ||oni that was said to be haunted'. The next morning his host eagerly asked him—"Well, did your Grace se-> anything unusual last night?" "No." "Are von quite surer'' . , , , "Oh, yes; at about twelve o clock I heard a knock at the door." " Yes, that was the ghost; that is ex : actlv what he docs. What did you do?" "Oh, I said—'Come in, come in. "How brave of you! And did he come in?" "Yes," said the Archbishop, an o'cj sallow-looking man with bent figure and long hair." "Yes—that is the ghost who haunts this house. AncT what did you do?" "Well," replied the worthy prelate, "I (rot, out of"bed and went up to him. 1 asked him if he belonged to the house, and he nodded assent. I askec. him if lie was a parishioner : he nodded assent. I said—'l am anxious to build Mime new schools; will you give me a subscription?' He disappeared, i; didn't come back."