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

74/260“Dat we don’t know, Hicks. He say he kin and Ah b’lieve he knowwhut he’s talkin’ ’bout. Ah reckon if colored folks got they own townthey kin have post offices and whatsoever they please, regardless. Andthen agin, Ah don’t speck de white folks way off yonder give uh damn.Less us wait and see.”“Oh, Ah’m waitin’ all right. Specks tuh keep on waitin’ till hellfreeze over.”“Aw, git reconciled! Dat woman don’t want you. You got tuh learndat all de women in de world ain’t been brought up on no teppentinestill, and no saw-mill camp. There’s some women dat jus’ ain’t for youtuh broach. You can’t git her wid no fish sandwich.”They argued a bit more then went on to the house where Joe wasand found him in his shirt-sleeves, standing with his legs wide apart,asking questions and smoking a cigar.“Where’s de closest saw-mill?” He was asking Tony Taylor.“ ’Bout seben miles goin’ t’wards Apopka,” Tony told him.“Thinkin’ ’bout buildin’ right away?”“I god, yeah. But not de house Ah specks tuh live in. Dat kin waittill Ah make up mah mind where Ah wants it located. Ah figgers we allneeds uh store in uh big hurry.”“Uh store?” Tony shouted in surprise.“Yeah, uh store right heah in town wid everything in it you needs.’Tain’t uh bit uh use in everybody proagin’ way over tuh Maitland tuhbuy uh little meal and flour when they could git it right heah.”“Dat would be kinda nice, Brother Starks, since you mention it.”