Prodigal son sees a return home as dangerous to his health!
The prodigal son (likely a cad and bounder who has run up a large debt on the family account back home in Blighty) seeing a return home as the poor option !!
Overheard in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
"Well, young Scapegrace, are you going back home to let your people kill the fatted calf?" "Oh, you don't know my governor, he's not that sort; he'd more likely kill the Bally Prodigal."
Picture No
10803997
Media ID
45546820
Size
3901px x 4630px
(2.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Illustration by Phil May from The Phil May Folio' (1904)
Date
circa 1890s
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