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Their Eyes Were Watching God 40 161she could get it thoroughly hidden in the pocket of her overalls,Tea Cake burst in again."'Tain't no cars, Janie.""Ah thought not! Whut we gointuh do now?""We got tuh walk.""In all dis weather, Tea Cake? Ah don't b'lieve Ah couldmake it out de quarters.""Oh yeah you kin. Me and you and Motor Boat kin all lockarms and hold one 'pother down. Eh, Motor?""He's sleep on de bed in yonder," Janie said. Tea Cake calledwithout moving."Motor Boat! You better git up from dere! Hell done brokeloose in Georgy. Dis minute! How kin you sleep at uh time lakdis? Water knee deep in de yard."They stepped out in water almost to their buttocks and managedto turn east. Tea Cake had to throw his box away, and Janiesaw how it hurt him. Dodging flying missiles, floating dangers,avoiding stepping in holes and warmed on the wind now at theirbacks until they gained comparatively dry land. They had to fightto keep from being pushed the wrong way and to hold together.They saw other people like themselves struggling along. A housedown, here and there, frightened cattle. But above all the drive ofthe wind and the water. And the lake. Under its multiplied roarcould be heard a mighty sound of grinding rock and timber anda wail. They looked back. Saw people trying to run in ragingwaters and screaming when they found they couldn't. A hugebarrier of the makings of the dike to which the cabins had beenadded was rolling and tumbling forward. Ten feet higher and asfar as they could see the muttering wall advanced before thebraced-up waters like a road crusher on a cosmic scale. The monstropolousbeast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hourwind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran