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

157/260“But anyhow, Janie, you be keerful ’bout dis sellin’ out and goin’ offwid strange men. Look whut happened tuh Annie Tyler. Took whutlittle she had and went off tuh Tampa wid dat boy dey call Who Flung.It’s somethin’ tuh think about.”“It sho is. Still Ah ain’t Mis’ Tyler and Tea Cake ain’t no WhoFlung, and he ain’t no stranger tuh me. We’se just as good as marriedalready. But Ah ain’t puttin’ it in de street. Ah’m tellin’ you.”“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”“Oh, Ah know you don’t talk. We ain’t shame faced. We jus’ ain’tready tuh make no big kerflommuck as yet.”“You doin’ right not tuh talk it, but Janie, you’se takin’ uh mightybig chance.”“ ’Tain’t so big uh chance as it seem lak, Pheoby. Ah’m older thanTea Cake, yes. But he done showed me where it’s de thought dat makesde difference in ages. If people thinks de same they can make it allright. So in the beginnin’ new thoughts had tuh be thought and newwords said. After Ah got used tuh dat, we gits ’long jus’ fine. He donetaught me de maiden language all over. Wait till you see de new bluesatin Tea Cake done picked out for me tuh stand up wid him in. Highheel slippers, necklace, earrings, everything he wants tuh see me in.Some of dese mornin’s and it won’t be long, you gointuh wake up callin’me and Ah’ll be gone.”