I remember once, when a kid - from what motive I cannot recall, but no doubt just in a spirit of clean fun - hiding in a sort of alcove in the main staircase at Biddleford Castle and saying "Boo!" to a butler who was coming up with a tray containing a decanter, a syphon, and glasses. Biddleford is popularly supposed to be haunted by a Wailing Lady, and the first time the butler touched ground was when he came up against a tiger-skin rug in the hall two flights down.
(from Laughing Gas, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
More HERE about Wodehouse's butlers
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