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

84/260with a wagon load of his ribbon cane and took the cane away fromPitts and made him leave town. Some of them thought Starks oughtnot to have done that. He had so much cane and everything else. Butthey didn’t say that while Joe Starks was on the porch. When the mailcame from Maitland and he went inside to sort it out everybody hadtheir say.Sim Jones started off as soon as he was sure that Starks couldn’thear him.“It’s uh sin and uh shame runnin’ dat po’ man way from here lakdat. Colored folks oughtn’t tuh be so hard on one ’nother.”“Ah don’t see it dat way atall,” Sam Watson said shortly. “Letcolored folks learn to work for what dey git lak everybody else. Nobodyain’t stopped Pitts from plantin’ de cane he wanted tuh. Starks givehim uh job, what mo’ do he want?”“Ah know dat too,” Jones said, “but, Sam, Joe Starks is too exactwid folks. All he got he done made it offa de rest of us. He didn’t haveall dat when he come here.”“Yeah, but none uh all dis you see and you’se settin’ on wasn’t hereneither, when he come. Give de devil his due.”“But now, Sam, you know dat all he do is big-belly round and tellother folks what tuh do. He loves obedience out of everybody under desound of his voice.”“You kin feel a switch in his hand when he’s talkin’ to yuh,” OscarScott complained. “Dat chastisin’ feelin’ he totes sorter gives yuh deprotolapsis uh de cutinary linin’.”“He’s uh whirlwind among breezes,” Jeff Bruce threw in.