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Their Eyes Were Watching God 4/P 173"Who you reckon Ah seen, Janie? Bet you can't guess.""Ah'll betcha uh fat man you seen Sop-de-Bottom.""Yeah Ah seen him and Stew Beef and Dockery and 'Lias,and Coodemay and Bootyny. Guess who else!""Lawd knows. Is it Sterrett?""Naw, he got caught in the rush. 'Lias help bury him in PalmBeach. Guess who else?""Ah g'wan tell me, Tea Cake. Ah don't know. It can't beMotor Boat.""Dat's jus' who it is. Ole Motor! De son of a gun laid up in dathouse and slept and de lake come moved de house way off somewhereand Motor didn't know nothin"bout it till de storm wuz'bout over.""Naw!""Yeah man. Heah we nelly kill our fool selves runnin' wayfrom danger and him lay up dere and sleep and float on off!""Well, you know dey say luck is uh fortune.""Dat's right too. Look, Ah got uh job uh work. Help clearin'up things in general, and then dey goin' build dat dike shonuff. Dat ground got to be cleared off too. Plenty work. Deyneeds mo' men even."So Tea Cake made three hearty weeks. He bought anotherrifle and a pistol and he and Janie bucked each other as to whowas the best shot with Janie ranking him always with the rifle. Shecould knock the head off of a chicken-hawk sitting up a pine tree.Tea Cake was a little jealous, but proud of his pupil.About the middle of the fourth week Tea Cake came homeearly one afternoon complaining of his head. Sick headache thatmade him lie down for a while. He woke up hungry. Janie had hissupper ready but by the time he walked from the bedroom to thetable, he said he didn't b'lieve he wanted a thing."Thought you tole me you wuz hongry!" Janie wailed.