The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-11-17
THE MODERN PRoDIaA1.
A Brilliant Travssty upon the Bib
iical Romance.

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father, "Father give 10 me inc pm
of goods that falleth to me- ,.;rr
and the voung man purchased himseu
an oilcloth grip sack and got out OIL 'hS'
Ard II came to pass that he journeyeu
avan unto Ruckskin and the lano Ih~'
lieth over against LeadVllle: .ho
And vhen he was come nigh unto Ihs
ootes of the city, he heard music Emu
land And he got into that place, and when n
- 600 and went his way, hlrel'n
a az the the Gates smote upon him win .
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-. not how it was.
younger son " isu 49,
And in the second watch of the nlgn.
he arose and he was alone, and the
pieces OF gold and silver were gone.
And it 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 in a prospect shaft to dig.
And he never before dag.
Wherefore when he spat upon his
hands and lay hold of the long handled
shovel, wherewith they are went to
shovel, he struck his elbow upon the
wall of the shaft wherein he stood, and
he poured the earth and rocks over
against the back of his neck.
Ank he waxed exceedingly wroth.
And he tried even yet again, and be-
hold the handle of the shovel became
entangled between his legs, and filed
his ear nigh full of decOmposed slate
and the periphery which is In that region
round about.
And he visit not why 1t was so.
Now, after many days the shovslers
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 tot Let us strike. And they
stroke.
And they that stroke were as the
sands of the sea for multitude, and they
were as terrible as an army with ban
ners.
And they blew upon the rams horn,
and the cornet, and the scabut, and the
alto horn, and the flute, and the bass
drum.
Now it came to pass that the younger
son joined not with them that did strike,
neither went ne out tn his work, nor on
the highway, lest at any timethey that
did strike should fall upon him and
flatten him out, and even send him 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
citizen of that country; and he sent
him into the lunch room to find tourists.
And he would fain have filled himself
up with the adsmantine cookies and in
destructible pie and the vulcanized
sandwiches which the tourist did eat
And no man gave unto him.
And when he came unto himself he
said: How many hired servants hath
my father on the farm with bread
enough and lots to spare, and l perish
with hunger?
And he resigned his position in the
lunch business and arose and went unto
his father.
But when he was yet 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 man
paid for the telegram.
Now the elder son was in the north
field blowing with pair of balky
mules, and when he came and drew
nigh to the house he heard music and
dancing.
And he couldn't seem to wot why
these things were thus.
And he took the hired girl by the ear
and led her away, and asked her
Whence eometh 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 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 armfuI of profanity and flung 1t
in among the guests, and gat 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
whereon they were, together with all
and singular the Embellishments. rights,
franchise, estate, both in law and equity,
together with all dips, spurs, angles,
crooks, variations, leads, veins of gold
or silver ore, millsites, damsites, fumes,
and each and every one OF them firmly
by these presents.
And it was so.-[Denver Tribune.