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Their Eyes Were Watching God aks 155worried. The fire dance kept up till nearly dawn. The next day,more Indians moved east, unhurried but steady. Still a blue skyand fair weather. Beans running fine and prices good, so the Indianscould be, must be, wrong. You couldn't have a hurricanewhen you're making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans.Indians are dumb anyhow, always were. Another night of StewBeef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural,grotesques in the dance. Next day, no Indians passed at all.It was hot and sultry and Janie left the field and went home.Morning came without motion. The winds, to the tiniest,lisping baby breath had left the earth. Even before the sun gavelight, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man.Some rabbits scurried through the quarters going east. Somepossums slunk by and their route was definite. One or two at atime, then more. By the time the people left the fields the processionwas constant. Snakes, rattlesnakes began to cross the quarters.The men killed a few, but they could not be missed from the crawlinghorde. People stayed indoors until daylight. Several times duringthe night Janie heard the snort of big animals like deer. Oncethe muted voice of a panther. Going east and east. That night thepalm and banana trees began that long distance talk with rain. Severalpeople took fright and picked up and went in to Palm Beachanyway. A thousand buzzards held a flying meet and then wentabove the clouds and stayed.One of the Bahaman boys stopped by Tea Cake's house in acar and hollered. Tea Cake came out throwin' laughter over hisshoulder into the house."Hello Tea Cake.""Hello 'Lias. You leavin', Ah see.""Yeah man. You and Janie wanta go? Ah wouldn't givenobody else uh chawnce at uh seat till Ah found out if you all hadanyway tuh go."