[VII. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION]
[IX. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY]
THE ADOPTED SON.
[CHAPTER I.]
"Our Father, which art in heaven."
"Oh! As I said before, it's all a matter of opinion. I think it a man's duty to attend to his business, and get his children well on in the world," observed Goldie, the fruiterer, as the baker's wife handed to him a bag of captain's biscuits from behind her counter. "We must look to our advantage in this life, Mrs. Winter."
"Ay, and in the next also," replied the woman quietly. Then bending over the counter to a little flaxen-haired girl who had just entered the shop, "And what do you want, my dear?" she said.
"Please for twopenny-worth of sweet biscuits, three for a penny," answered the child.