Show modern M 0 d e r prodigal r U gal used to be an old man I 1 knew know in albany said state excise commissioner timothy lil cullinan whose son hardly was an imitator of the prodigal of olden times the old man was ich and his tastes were riotous but his years were too many to permit him to roll as high as his wealth would allow it laid with the boy to spend the money but he dress up to top notch nor go to wine parties nor play poker but was frugal and saving and so the old mans heart was heavy within him one day the old man wrote to a business friend in new york who had a couple of scapegrace sons and told him ho be was going to billy down there on a trip that he wanted his friends sons to show the kid the elephant in chort to give him the benefit of the whole menagerie he aavo billy three hundred dollars and told him to skip out and enjoy himself the old man thought the boy was frescoing the town particularly as ho he hear from him and he was happy for two months then billy returned and broke his heart with aba truth what do you suppose the kid had been doing hed struck a job setting up pins in a bowling alley as soon as he I 1 got there and he took home with him new yorio york press |