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

109/260with her bristles sticking out all over her and with dissatisfaction writtenall over her face. Joe saw it and lifted his own hackles a bit.Jim Weston had secretly borrowed a dime and soon he was loudlybeseeching Daisy to have a treat on him. Finally she consented to takea pickled pig foot on him. Janie was getting up a large order when theycame in, so Lum waited on them. That is, he went back to the keg butcame back without the pig foot.“Mist’ Starks, de pig feets is all gone!” he called out.“Aw naw dey ain’t, Lum. Ah bought uh whole new kag of ’em widdat last order from Jacksonville. It come in yistiddy.”Joe came and helped Lum look but he couldn’t find the new kegeither, so he went to the nail over his desk that he used for a file tosearch for the order.“Janie, where’s dat last bill uh ladin’?”“It’s right dere on de nail, ain’t it?”“Naw it ain’t neither. You ain’t put it where Ah told yuh tuh. Ifyou’d git yo’ mind out de streets and keep it on yo’ business maybe youcould git somethin’ straight sometimes.”“Aw, look around dere, Jody. Dat bill ain’t apt tuh be gone offnowheres. If it ain’t hangin’ on de nail, it’s on yo’ desk. You bound tuhfind it if you look.”“Wid you heah, Ah oughtn’t tuh hafta do all dat lookin’ andsearchin’. Ah done told you time and time agin tuh stick all dem paperson dat nail! All you got tuh do is mind me. How come you can’t dolak Ah tell yuh?”