December 1894 Issue [Editor’s Drawer] The premature prodigal Download PDF Adjust Share by Hayden Carruth, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. 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