Humor: The Prodigal Son (in the key of F)

["T. K. Cassidy" <tkc@KUENTOS.GUAM.NET>]

THE PRODIGAL SON (In the Key of F)

Francis the Foolish felt a filial fondness for his flawless, fastidious
father, Ferdinand the Fourth. Following one February fortnight, Francis,
feeling footloose and frisky, forced his fond father to fork over five
hundred forty five farthings, then fled his fathers fertile fief.

Fleeing to foreign fields, Francis finally frittered away his fortune on
fickle females, firkins of foaming ale, freeloading friends, and feasting.

Fleeced by those fiendish fellows of the fleshpots, and facing fateful
failure and famine, Francis finally found huimseld flinging foul feed to
the swine in a filthy farmyard as a forlorn farmhand. Footsore and
famished, he fain would have filled his flaccid frame with filched food but
found it fit for only a footman.

"Fie!" flared Francis, "My Father's flunkies fare far finer." Fortunately
the frazzled fugitive finally faced the facts. Frustrated from failure and
fulfilled foreboding, he fled forthwith to his faraway family.

Falling fatigued at his father's feet, Francis feebly phrased his feelings:
"Father," he fumbled, "I've flunked - and fruitlessly forfeited family
favor....forgive me."  The far-sighted father, forestalling future family
fissures flagged his flunkies. "Fetch a fatling from the flock and fix a
feast for Francis. Forthwith. Fall to! Faster!"

Frederic the Feculent, Francis' feisty, fault-finding brother, frowned upon
his father's forgiveness of Francis' former philandering. "Flog the
Flounder!" he fumed. But the faithful felt that Francis' former
foibles should be freely forgiven. "Filial fidelity is what fathers are
for, Frederick," said Ferdinand with feelings flowing. "Forsooth,  the
fugitive is found, so what forbids festivity? Fly the flags freely, amid
fifes, fiddles and fanfares...FLING A FEAST!"

Francis, face flushed, foreswore frippery forever more by forcing his frame
into a friar's frock.

- Fini -

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