Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

138/260“Yuh can’t beat uh woman. Dey jes won’t stand fuh it. But Ah’llcome teach yuh agin. You gointuh be uh good player too, after while.”“You reckon so? Jody useter tell me Ah never would learn. It wuztoo heavy fuh mah brains.”“Folks is playin’ it wid sense and folks is playin’ it without. But yougot good meat on yo’ head. You’ll learn. Have uh cool drink on me.”“Oh all right, thank yuh. Got plenty cold ones tuhday. Nobody ain’tbeen heah tuh buy none. All gone off tuh de game.”“You oughta be at de next game. ’Tain’t no use in you stayin’ heahif everybody else is gone. You don’t buy from yo’-self, do yuh?”“You crazy thing! ’Course Ah don’t. But Ah’m worried ’bout you uhlittle.”“How come? ’Fraid Ah ain’t gointuh pay fuh dese drinks?”“Aw naw! How you gointuh git back home?”“Wait round heah fuh a car. If none don’t come, Ah got good shoeleather. ’Tain’t but seben miles no how. Ah could walk dat in no time.Easy.”“If it wuz me, Ah’d wait on uh train. Seben miles is uh kinda longwalk.”“It would be for you, ’cause you ain’t used to it. But Ah’m seen womenwalk further’n dat. You could too, if yuh had it tuh do.”“Maybe so, but Ah’ll ride de train long as Ah got railroad fare.”