Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 10 | Pratt's Muse Soars on His Prison Fare

FRATTS TIE, SOARS ON HIS PRISON FARE Frank Cacll Pratt, the young Cailfor- j nlan who cut a wide swath la local hotels and cafes, mrbsksllers and palaces of; pleasure with money gained1 toy means of fraudulent checks, who waa arrested in a prtvate ward of f T. 0. hospital last Sunday .morning, 'Wbera ha was recovering re-covering at his Impure from a "night out." dislikes the food that is served In the city jail. His delicate palate it Irritated by the plebeian food served in the Jail, and his cdurMed taste spurns thst which other prisoners enjoy. He is unable to ahsorb the democracy of a common Jail where ail ranks are leveled, and his aristocratic aristocra-tic stomach Is not satisfied with the soup and bread that forma a large, part ol his diet, at 10 cents a meal. Frank Cecil Pratt has burst Into Terse to voice his sngulsh, and ha penned the following melancholy lines last night after the regular supper was served: TURN BACKWARD, O TIMK. "Backward, turn backward, 6 lima. In your flight, To feed me on gruel again tonight : I I am so weary of sole leather steak. Petrified biscuits and vulcanised cake. Oystere that sleep in watery bath And hotter aa strong aa Goliath of Gath; Weary of paying for what I don't eat; Chewing up rubber snd calling H meat. "Backward, turn backward! How weary I am; Oh. give me a swipe at my grandmother's grandmoth-er's Jam; Let me drink milk that has never been skimmed. Let me eat butter whose whiskers are h trim seed , , . . Let me once mors have an old fashioned pie-Then pie-Then I'll be ready to curl up and dl. Pratt's appeal has not won him special rations. He Is being held on the local chsrges of Issuing bad paper, though no complaint haa been Issued against him pending tha receipt of advices from California.