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Their Eyes Were Watching God 40P 185when the doctor told the sheriff and the judge how it was, theyall said she must be tried that same day. No need to punish her injail by waiting. Three hours in jail and then they set the court forher case. The time was short and everything, but sufficient peoplewere there. Plenty of white people came to look on thisstrangeness. And all the Negroes for miles around. Who was itdidn't know about the love between Tea Cake and Janie?The court set and Janie saw the judge who had put on agreat robe to listen about her and Tea Cake. And twelve morewhite men had stopped whatever they were doing to listen andpass on what happened between Janie and Tea Cake Woods, andas to whether things were done right or not. That was funnytoo. Twelve strange men who didn't know a thing about peoplelike Tea Cake and her were going to sit on the thing. Eight orten white women had come to look at her too. They wore goodclothes and had the pinky color that comes of good food. Theywere nobody's poor white folks. What need had they to leavetheir richness to come look on Janie in her overalls? But theydidn't seem too mad, Janie thought. It would be nice if shecould make them know how it was instead of those menfolks.Oh, and she hoped that undertaker was fixing Tea Cake up fine.They ought to let her go see about it. Yes, and there was Mr.Prescott that she knew right well and he was going to tell thetwelve men to kill her for shooting Tea Cake. And a strange manfrom Palm Beach who was going to ask them not to kill her, andnone of them knew.Then she saw all of the colored people standing up in theback of the courtroom. Packed tight like a case of celery, onlymuch darker than that. They were all against her, she could see.So many were there against her that a light slap from each one ofthem would have beat her to death. She felt them pelting herwith dirty thoughts. They were there with their tongues cocked