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

213/260“Once upon uh time, Ah never ’spected nothin’, Tea Cake, but bein’dead from the standin’ still and tryin’ tuh laugh. But you come ’longand made somethin’ outa me. So Ah’m thankful fuh anything we comethrough together.”“Thanky, Ma’am.”“You was twice noble tuh save me from dat dawg. Tea Cake, Ahdon’t speck you seen his eyes lak Ah did. He didn’t aim tuh jus’ biteme, Tea Cake. He aimed tuh kill me stone dead. Ah’m never tuh fuhgitdem eyes. He wuzn’t nothin’ all over but pure hate. Wonder where hecome from?”“Yeah, Ah did see ’im too. It wuz frightenin’. Ah didn’t mean tuhtake his hate neither. He had tuh die uh me one. Mah switch bladesaid it wuz him.”“Po’ me, he’d tore me tuh pieces, if it wuzn’t fuh you, honey.”“You don’t have tuh say, if it wuzn’t fuh me, baby, cause Ah’mheah, and then Ah want yuh tuh know it’s uh man heah.”