, 1880-12-31
That PrGdigai Son.

Now. there was man who had two
sons.
And the younger of them said to his
father, father give me that portion OF
goods that falleth to me"
And he divided unto him his living,
and the younger son purchased himself
an oil cloth grip sack and got him out OF
the country.
And it came to pass that he iourneyod
even unto Buckskin and the country that
lieth against Leadyille. -,
And when he came nigh unto the
gates of the city, he heard music ana
dancing.
And Ae got him into that place, and
| when he arose and went his way,
herring ut the gate smote upon him
with slung shot Of great potency
and the younger son wist not how 1t was
| done.
Now in the second watch of the night
he arose and was alone, and the pieces OF
the gold and silver were gone
| And it was 50. ....
And he arose and sat down and rent
his clothes and threw ashes and dust up
on himself.
And he went and joined himself unto
citizen of that country, and he sent
him down into a prospect Shalt fof 10
dig.
And lie had never before dug.
Wherefore when he spat upon his
hands and lay hold of the long handled
shovel. wherewith they are wont to
shovel, he struck his elbow upon tho
wall of the shaft wherein he stood, and
he poured the earth and the broken stone
against the back of his neck.
And he waxed exceeding wroth.
And he tried even yet again, and be-
hold the handle of his shovel became
tangled between his legs, and he filled
his ear nigh full of decomposed slate
and the propyhry which is in that region
round about.
And he wist not why it was so.
Now, after many days the shovelers
with their shovels, and the pickers with
their picks, and the blasters with their
blasts, and the holsters with their HOSTS,
banded themselves together, and each
said to his fellow
Go to! Let us strike. And they
stroke.
And they that stroke were as the
sands OF the sea for multitude, and
they were terrible as an army with ban
ners.
And they blew upon the rams horn
and the cornet and sacbut, and the flute
and bass drum.
Now it came to pass that the younger
son ioined not with them which did
strike, neither went he out to his work,
nor on the highway, lest at any time they
that did strike should fall upon him and
fatten him out, and send him even unto
his home packed in ice, which is even
after the fashion of that people.
And he began to be i'll want.
! And he went and Joined himsely unto
citizen of that country; and he sent
him into the lunch room to find tourists.
And he fain would have filled himself
up with the adamantine cookies and the
indistructible pie vulcani2ed sandwiches
which the tourists did eat.
And no man gave unto him.
And when he came to himself he said:
| How many hired servants hath my father
on the farm with bread enough and to
spare, and perish with hunger?
And he resineth his position in the
lunch business and arose and went unto
his father.
But when he was great way off he
telegraphed to his father to kill the old
COW and make merry, for, behold, he
had struck it rich; and the old gentle
man paid for the telegram.
Now the elder son was III the south
| Il Nf Inll-yr ,,,tplag
and when le came and drew night to the
house he heard music and dancing.
And he could not seem to wot why
these things were thus.
And he took the girl by the ear and
led her away, and asked her, whence
cometh this unseemly hilarity?
And she smote him with hepalm Of her
hand, and said:
"This, thy brother hath come, and was
dead and is alive again, and they began
to have high old time.
And the elder son kicked even as the
Government mule kicketh, and he was
hot under the collar, and he gathered
up an armful Of profanity and flung it in
among the guests, and got him up and
| girded his loins and lit out.
| And he got him to one learned in the
law, and he replevied the entire ranch
in which they were, together with alland
singular the hereditaments, right, title,
franchise, estate, both in law and in
equity together with all dips, spurs,
angles, crooks, variations, leads, veins Of
lead or silver ore, mill sites, dam sites,
fumes, and each and every one OF them
firmly by these presents.
And it was so.--Denyer Tribune.