EXTRACT FROM "PASSING NOTES."

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 15, 25 June 1920, Page 6

EXTRACT FROM "PASSING NOTES."

A PARABLE. When the Prodigal had returned he said unto his Father : "Father, I have wasted my substance in a good time until there is nothing left, nay, not a ibean in my scrip, and lo! I am on my uppers ; therefore, Father, I am come to say that I have sinned." And the Old Man said, "Wherein hast thou sinned, O my Son?" Then the Son told him of the red and white wine that bucketh you up, and of the women called Tottie and Flossie, and of the Oprah and the Midnight Feasts, and of the other things that make up a royal time. And the Father was moved in spirit, for he was not yet two score years and ten, and was full of vigour. And he said : "My son, I wist not that such things were, since I have lived long in this Hole, which is forsaken of the Lord. I would fain see for myself the things whereof thou tellest me. Tell me, I pray thee, where the women called Tottie and Flossie areto be found. It may be that I shall be able to lead them again to Righteousness. And I would fain know also where these taverns and feasting houses are." And when the Son had told him all these things the Old Man got him a change of raiment and journeyed to the city by the next caravan. And he said in his heart: "My son hath opened mine eyes to the joys of prodigalling, whereof I knew nothing be- ~ fore. Now, therefore, shall I have a rorty time." And, lo, it was even as he said. Moral : Obviousi