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

104/260“Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall’s fillin’station—uh great big old scoundrel. He eats up all de folks outa dehouse and den eat de house.”“Aw ’tain’t no sich a varmint nowhere dat kin eat no house! Dat’suh lie. Ah wuz dere yiste’ddy and Ah ain’t seen nothin’ lak dat. Whereis he?”“Ah didn’t see him but Ah reckon he is in de back-yard some place.But dey got his picture out front dere. They was nailin’ it up when Ahcome pass dere dis evenin’.”“Well all right now, if he eats up houses how come he don’t eat upde fillin’ station?”“Dat’s ’cause dey got him tied up so he can’t. Dey got uh great bigpicture tellin’ how many gallons of dat Sinclair high-compression gashe drink at one time and how he’s more’n uh million years old.”“ ’Tain’t nothin’ no million years old!”“De picture is right up dere where anybody kin see it. Dey can’tmake de picture till dey see de thing, kin dey?”“How dey goin’ to tell he’s uh million years old? Nobody wasn’tborn dat fur back.”“By de rings on his tail Ah reckon. Man, dese white folks got waysfor tellin’ anything dey wants tuh know.”“Well, where he been at all dis time, then?”“Dey caught him over dere in Egypt. Seem lak he used tuh hanground dere and eat up dem Pharaohs’ tombstones. Dey got de picture