December 1894 Issue [Editor’s Drawer] The premature prodigal Download PDF Adjust Share by Hayden Carruth, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century Christmas stories Fiction Humor Humorous stories Parent and child Prodigal son (Parable) United States More from Hayden Carruth A Vision of Now By Hayden Carruth, from “The Beginning of the End,” a sequence of poems published posthumously in the Fall 2009 issue of The Sewanee Review. Carruth’s “Notes on Emphysema” appeared in… Notes on emphysema Country matters Adjust Share