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102 alis Zora Neale Hurstonnothing. Near eleven o'clock she remembered a piece of poundcake she had put away. Tea Cake went out to the lemon tree atthe corner of the kitchen and picked some lemons and squeezedthem for her. So they had lemonade too."Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away," TeaCake said after they had washed up the plates and glasses. "Lessus go fishin'.""Fishin'? Dis time uh night?""Unhhunh, fishin'. Ah know where de bream is beddin'.Seen 'em when Ah come round de lake dis evenin'. Where's yo'fishin' poles? Less go set on de lake."It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting outfor Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breakingrules. That's what made Janie like it. They caught two or threeand got home just before day. Then she had to smuggle Tea Cakeout by the back gate and that made it seem like some great secretshe was keeping from the town."Mis' Janie," Hezekiah began sullenly next day, "you oughtn't'low dat Tea Cake tuh be walkin' tuh de house wid yuh. Ah'll gowid yuh mahself after dis, if you'se skeered.""What's de matter wid Tea Cake, 'Kiah? Is he uh thief uhsomethin'?""Ah ain't never heard nobody say he stole nothin'.""Is he bad 'bout totin' pistols and knives tuh hurt peoplewid?""Dey don't say he ever cut nobody or shot nobody neither.""Well, is he—he—is he got uh wife or something lak dat?Not dat it's any uh mah business." She held her breath for theanswer."No'm. And nobody wouldn't marry Tea Cake tub starvetuh death lessen it's somebody jes lak him—ain't used to nothin'.'Course he always keep hisself in changin' clothes. Dat long-