some naked

Not so bad dere, but man, dis muck is too low and dat big lake is liable tuh bust.”

In fact, she’s more nicer than anybody else on de muck.”

“You’se different from me. Ah can’t stand black niggers. Ah don’t blame de white folks from hatin’ ’em ’cause Ah can’t stand ’em mahself.

“Shucks!” said Hicks. “Mah britches is just as long as his. But dat wife uh hisn! Ah’m uh son of uh Combunction if Ah don’t go tuh Georgy and git me one just like her.”

“You married? You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?”

Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous. A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in the quarters.

De boogerman liable tuh tote yuh off whilst Ah’m gone.”

Tea Cake was spending and doing out of his own pocket, so Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin.

“Dat’s de way it looks. Still and all, she’s her own woman. She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do.”

The more people in there the more ridicule he poured over her body to point attention away from his own

Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice.

Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.

A sack of flabby something hung from his loins and rested on his thighs when he sat down. But even these things were running down like candle grease as time moved on.

“ ’Cause Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck.”

too new and heavy for Janie.

too new and heavy for Janie.