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

101/260Walter Thomas was due to speak up and egg the matter on. “Yeah,Sam always got more information than he know what to do wid. He’sbound to tell yuh whatever it is you wants tuh know.”Sam begins an elaborate show of avoiding the struggle. That drawseverybody on the porch into it.“How come you want me tuh tell yuh? You always claim God donemet you round de corner and talked His inside business wid yuh.’Tain’t no use in you askin’ me nothin’. Ah’m questionizin’ you.”“How you gointuh do dat, Sam, when Ah arrived dis conversationmahself? Ah’m askin’ you.”“Askin’ me what? You ain’t told me de subjick yit.”“Don’t aim tuh tell yuh! Ah aims tuh keep yuh in de dark all detime. If you’se smart lak you let on you is, you kin find out.”“Yuh skeered to lemme know whut it is, ’cause yuh know Ah’ll tearit tuh pieces. You got to have a subjick tuh talk from, or yuh can’t talk.If uh man ain’t got no bounds, he ain’t got no place tuh stop.”By this time, they are the center of the world.“Well all right then. Since you own up you ain’t smart enough tuhfind out whut Ah’m talkin’ ’bout, Ah’ll tell you. Whut is it dat keeps uhman from gettin’ burnt on uh red-hot stove—caution or nature?”“Shucks! Ah thought you had somethin’ hard tuh ast me. Walterkin tell yuh dat.”“If de conversation is too deep for yuh, how come yuh don’t tell meso, and hush up? Walter can’t tell me nothin’ uh de kind. Ah’m uh