Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-07
BILL NYE.
Occidental Paraphrases of ORR
entail Parallels.

Denver Tribune.l
THE PARABLE OF THE PRoDIGAL SON.
Now, there was a mar who had two
sons.
And the younger Of them said tC
his father, father, give me the por-
ton of goods that falleth to me-"
And he divided unto him his living
and the younger son purchased him
self an oil-cloth grip-sack and got him
out of hat country.
And it came to pass that he jour
neyed even unto Buckskin and the
country that lieth over against Lead
vile.
And when he was come nigh unto
the gates of the city, he heard music
and dancing
And he got him into that place,and
when be arose and went his way, a
hireling at the gates smote upon him
with a slung-shot of great po~tency,and
the younger son visit not how it was.
Now in the second watch of the
night he arose and was alone, and the
pieces Of gold and silver were gone.
And 1t was so.
And he arose and sat down and rent
his clothes and threw ashes and dust
upon himself.
And he went and joined himself
unto a citizen of that country, and he
sent him down into a prospect shaft
for to dig.
Aud he 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 the wall Of the shaft wherein he
stood, and he poured the earth and
the broken rocks against the back OF
his neck.
And he waxed exceeding wroth.
And he tried even yet again, and
behold the handle of his shovel be-
came tangled between his legs, and he
filed his ear nigh full Of decomposed
slate, and the porphyry which is in
that region round about.
And he wist not why it was go.
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 hoists, banded themselves to.
gether, and each said to his fellow:
Go tol Let us strike. And they
stroke.
And they hat strake were as the
sands Of the sea for multitude, and
they were terrible as an army with
banners.
And they blew upon the rams horn
and the cornet, and sacbut, and the
flute, and the bass drum.
Now it came to pass that the
younger son joined 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 hatten 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 in want.
And he went and Joined himself
unto a citizen of that country: and he
sent him into the lunch room to find
tourists.
And he fain would have filed him
self up with the adamantine cookies
and the indestructible pie and vulcan
lied sandwiches which the tourists
did eat.
And no man gave unto him.
And when he came 10 himself he
said How many hired servants hath
my father on the farm with bread
enough and to spare, and | perish
with hunger2
And he resigned his position in the
lunch business and arose and went
unto his father.
Bat when he was a 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 gentleman paid for the tele.
gram.
Now, the elder son was in the north
field blowing with a pair of balky
mules, and when he came and drew
nigh to the house he heard music and
dancing.
And he could not seem to wot why
these things we're thus.
And he took the hired girl by the
ear and led her away, and asked
her, whence cometh this unseemly
hilarity?
And she smote him with the palm
of her hand, and said: "This thy
brother hath come, and was dead and
is alive again, and they began to have
a high old time.
And the elder son kicked even as
the government mule kicketh, and he
was hot under the collar, and he gath
cred up an armful of profanity and
flung it in among the guests, and got
him up and gipded his loins and lit
out.
And he got him to one learned in
the law, and he ~replevied the entire
ranch on which they we're, together
With all and singular the heredita-
ments, right, title, franchise, estate
both in law and in equity, together
with all dips, spurs, angles, crooks.
variations, leads, veins Of gold or s'l.
yer ore, mill sites, dam-sites, hupes
and each and every one o them firmly
by these presents.
And it was so.