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

78/260incorporate, and us got tuh have uh mayor, if things is tuh be done anddone right. Ah welcome you all on behalf uh me and mah wife tuh disstore and tuh de other things tuh come. Amen.”Tony led the loud hand-clapping and was out in the center of thefloor when it stopped.“Brothers and sisters, since us can’t never expect tuh better ourchoice, Ah move dat we make Brother Starks our Mayor until we kinsee further.”“Second dat motion!!!” It was everybody talking at once, so it wasno need of putting it to a vote.“And now we’ll listen tuh uh few words uh encouragement fromMrs. Mayor Starks.”The burst of applause was cut short by Joe taking the floor himself.“Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’’bout no speech-makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ lak dat.She’s uh woman and her place is in de home.”Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn’t tooeasy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn’t know ifshe cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke outwithout giving her a chance to say anything one way or another thattook the bloom off of things. But anyway, she went down the road behindhim that night feeling cold. He strode along invested with his newdignity, thought and planned out loud, unconscious of her thoughts.“De mayor of uh town lak dis can’t lay round home too much. Deplace needs buildin’ up. Janie, Ah’ll git hold uh somebody tuh help out