EN266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Odd Hours, Nigger, Dey
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To janie"s strange eyes, everything in the everglades was big and new 129. Big lake okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Ah"m gone right now tuh pick uh job uh work wid de best man on de muck. Janie fussed around the shack making a home while tea cake planted beans 130. Every now and then they"d run across a party of indians in their long, narrow dug-outs calmly winning their living in the trackless ways of the glades. Less go intuh palm beach and spend some of our money 131. She got to be a better shot than tea cake. People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. Work all day for money, fight all night for love. The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants. Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present 132.
