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

68/260“Middle Georgy,” Starks answered briskly. “Joe Starks is mahname, from in and through Georgy.”“You and yo’ daughter goin’ tuh join wid us in fellowship?” the otherreclining figure asked. “Mighty glad tuh have yuh. Hicks is thename. Guv’nor Amos Hicks from Buford, South Carolina. Free, single,disengaged.”“I god, Ah ain’t nowhere near old enough to have no grown daughter.This here is mah wife.”Hicks sank back and lost interest at once.“Where is de Mayor?” Starks persisted. “Ah wants tuh talk widhim.”“Youse uh mite too previous for dat,” Coker told him. “Us ain’t gotnone yit.”“Ain’t got no Mayor! Well, who tells y’all what to do?”“Nobody. Everybody’s grown. And then agin, Ah reckon us justain’t thought about it. Ah know Ah ain’t.”“Ah did think about it one day,” Hicks said dreamily, “but then Ahforgot it and ain’t thought about it since then.”“No wonder things ain’t no better,” Joe commented. “Ah’m buyin’in here, and buyin’ in big. Soon’s we find some place to sleep tonightus menfolks got to call people together and form a committee. Thenwe can get things movin’ round here.”“Ah kin point yuh where yuh kin sleep,” Hicks offered. “Man gothis house done built and his wife ain’t come yet.”