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

69/260Starks and Janie moved on off in the direction indicated withHicks and Coker boring into their backs with looks.“Dat man talks like a section foreman,” Coker commented. “He’smighty compellment.”“Shucks!” said Hicks. “Mah britches is just as long as his. But datwife uh hisn! Ah’m uh son of uh Combunction if Ah don’t go tuh Georgyand git me one just like her.”“Whut wid?”“Wid mah talk, man.”“It takes money tuh feed pretty women. Dey gits uh lavish uh talk.”“Not lak mine. Dey loves to hear me talk because dey can’t understandit. Mah co-talkin’ is too deep. Too much co to it.”“Umph!”“You don’t believe me, do yuh? You don’t know de women Ah kingit to mah command.”“Umph!”“You ain’t never seen me when Ah’m out pleasurin’ and givin’pleasure.”“Umph!”“It’s uh good thing he married her befo’ she seen me. Ah kin besome trouble when Ah take uh notion.”