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Their Eyes Were Watching God Oar 149done me nothin' yet. Ah'm mad at her for thinkin'. Her and hergang got tuh go.""Us is wid yuh, Tea Cake. You know dat already. Dat Turnerwoman is real smart, accordin' tuh her notions. Reckon she doneheard 'bout dat money yo' wife got in de bank and she's boundtuh rope her in tuh her family one way or another.""Sop, Ah don't think it's half de money as it is de looks. She'scolor-struck. She ain't got de kind of uh mind you meet everyday. She ain't a fact and neither do she make a good story whenyou tell about her.""Ah yeah, she's too smart tuh stay round heah. She figgerswe'se jus' uh bunch uh dumb niggers so she think she'll growhorns. But dat's uh lie. She'll die butt-headed."Saturday afternoon when the work tickets were turned intocash everybody began to buy coon-dick and get drunk. By duskdark Belle Glade was full of loud-talking, staggering men. Plentywomen had gotten their knots charged too. The police chief inhis speedy Ford was rushing from jook to jook and eating housetrying to keep order, but making few arrests. Not enough jailspacefor all the drunks so why bother with a few? All he could doto keep down fights and get the white men out of colored townby nine o'clock. Dick Sterrett and Coodemay seemed to be theworst off. Their likker told them to go from place to place pushingand shoving and loud-talking and they were doing it.Way after a while they arrived at Mrs. Turner's eating houseand found the place full to the limit. Tea Cake, Stew Beef, Sopde-Bottom,Bootyny, Motor Boat and all the familiar crowd wasthere. Coodemay straightened up as if in surprise and asked,"Say, whut y'all doin' in heah?""Eatin'," Stew Beef told him. "Dey got beef stew, so youknow Ah'd be heah.""We all laks tuh take uh rest from our women folks' cookin'