Jesse was charmed with the great tent of green boughs.
"I wish I could have been one of the children that Moses led up out of Egypt," he said, with a sigh.
"Why, my son?" asked Reuben.
"So's I could have wandered around for forty years, living in a tent like this. How good it smells, and how pretty it is! I wish you and grandmother would live here all the time!"
The next day Phineas joined them. It was a happy family that gathered in the leafy booth for a week of out-door rejoicing in the cool autumn time.
"Where is the Master?" asked Abigail.
"I know not," answered her husband. "He sent us on before."
"Will He be here, I wonder?" she asked, and that question was on nearly every lip in Jerusalem.
"Will He be here?" asked the throngs of pilgrims who had heard of His miracles, and longed to see the man who could do such marvellous things.