der which is God's favourite text in the Bible,' said True.

Lady Isobel was silent; the children sometimes puzzled her.

'God never makes any faverits,' said Bobby. 'My old nurse telled me
that once. He loves ev'rybodies and all alike, doesn't he, Aunt
Is'bel?'

Then without waiting for her to reply he proceeded:

'I try to love ev'rybodies alike, but I love God first, and then my
father.'

'And who next?' asked True curiously.

'I finks,' said Bobby, hesitating, 'truthfully, I finks I loves Nobbles
next best.'

'I'm sure you oughtn't to,' said True; 'he's just a stick.'

Bobby shook his head. 'I loves you, Aunt Is'bel, and Master Mortimer,
and True, but Nobbles comed to me first, and I couldn't stop loving
him. He's a kind of part of me, you see, and ev'ryfing I does he does
too.'

'He's only a stick,' repeated True.

'Who saved father's life?' said Bobby with sudden warmth.

'Well,' said True, slowly, 'it was you who put Nobbles on the ice.'

'Yes,' said Bobby, 'it was what I'd been longing and wanting to do, and
I was always finking and finking how it could be done, and then all of
a sudden it comed, and who saved father's life? Why, me and Nobbles.'

True was crushed. Lady Isobel said softly:

'Shall we repeat the text together, children, in this old Bible, and
ask God to make us not only love it ourselves, but pass it on to those
who do not know how they can have a right to enter in through the gates
into the City?'

'Are there many bodies that don't know that?' questioned Bobby.

'A great, great many. Some who miss the happiness that God means them
to have in this world by not knowing it.'

'We must try and tell them,' said Bobby earnestly. 'It's a pity if
they don't understand prop'ly.'

Then slowly and softly the children repeated their text after Lady
Isobel:

'Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates
into the City.'

FINIS.

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