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

208/260spreading. But it came muttering and grumbling onward like a tiredmammoth just the same.“Dis is uh high tall house. Maybe it won’t reach heah at all,” Janiecounseled. “And if it do, maybe it won’t reach tuh de upstairs part.”“Janie, Lake Okechobee is forty miles wide and sixty miles long.Dat’s uh whole heap uh water. If dis wind is shovin’ dat whole lakedisa way, dis house ain’t nothin’ tuh swaller. Us better go. MotorBoat!”“Whut you want, man?”“De lake is comin’!”“Aw, naw it ’tain’t.”“Yes, it is so comin’! Listen! You kin hear it way off.”“It kin jus’ come on. Ah’ll wait right here.”“Aw, get up, Motor Boat! Less make it tuh de Palm Beach road.Dat’s on uh fill. We’se pretty safe dere.”“Ah’m safe here, man. Go ahead if yuh wants to. Ah’m sleepy.”“Whut you gointuh do if de lake reach heah?”“Go upstairs.”“S’posing it come up dere?”“Swim, man. Dat’s all.”