Prodigal Son: I will gladly do this.
[He goes off joyfully.]
SCENE II
Place: In the field with the swine.
Character: The Prodigal Son.
[The Prodigal Son comes in driving the pigs. He sits down.]
Prodigal Son: How horrible is this life; I am dying of hunger. No man will give me anything—all I get to eat is the food that I give the pigs. Oh, I wish that I had never left home! How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants."
[He rises and goes away hurriedly.]