Full audiobook "To Kill a Mockingbird" By Harper Lee #harperlee #audiobookclub #audiobook

Summary

This video features a full audiobook reading of Harper Lee's classic novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," brought to you by ABC - Audio Book Club. The novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of 1930s Alabama, follows young Scout Finch, her brother Jem, and their father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer defending a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. Through Scout's eyes, viewers experience themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy. The story is both a poignant exploration of social issues and a compelling tale of childhood curiosity and courage.

Highlights

• Scout and Jem befriend a boy named Dill and become fascinated with their reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley. 🏡
• Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, who is wrongfully accused of raping Mayella Ewell. ⚖️
• The trial reveals the racial tensions and injustices endemic to the Alabama town. 🎭
• Boo Radley saves Scout and Jem from an attack by Bob Ewell, highlighting the themes of courage and protection. 🚨
• The story concludes with Scout realizing the importance of understanding people's perspectives. 🌟

Key Takeaways

• Scout Finch learns valuable life lessons about justice and empathy through her father, Atticus Finch's, defense of an innocent black man. 📚
• The story highlights the deep-seated racial prejudices in the American South during the 1930s. 🌍
• Atticus Finch serves as a moral beacon, teaching his children to stand up for what is right despite societal pressures. 💪
• The novel is a coming-of-age story that explores themes of innocence, morality, and understanding others. 🎓
• Harper Lee's writing captures the complexities of moral and social issues in a deeply personal and relatable way. ✍️

Overview

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is an enduring classic that explores serious themes through the innocent lens of childhood. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, the story revolves around Scout Finch, her brother Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus Finch, who is appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Harper Lee's novel is a profound commentary on racial injustice and moral complexity, emphasizing the importance of empathy and understanding. Throughout the story, Scout and Jem encounter both the innocence and harsh realities of their small Southern town, guided by their father's principles and wisdom.

The narrative, while deeply rooted in its historical context, raises timeless questions about human behavior and morality. The transformation of the children's views as they mature mirrors the journey from innocence to a more nuanced understanding of good and evil in their community.

Chapters

• 01:48 - 26:43: Chapter 1 The chapter starts with a welcome message to the audiobook club and a request for subscriptions and shares. It then introduces 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and dedicates it to Mister Lee and Alice with affection. A quote by Charles Lamb suggests that lawyers were once children. The story begins with the narrator reflecting on an incident when her brother, Jem, was nearly 13 and broke his arm at the elbow.
• 26:43 - 48:21: Chapter 2 In Chapter 2, Jem's fears about his ability to play football after an injury are alleviated. Despite his left arm being somewhat shorter than his right and his hand positioning being unusual, Jem remains unconcerned as long as he can pass and punt. The narrative reflects on these concerns and the events leading to his accident from a future perspective.
• 48:21 - 72:36: Chapter 3 The chapter reflects on the beginnings of events in the story, highlighting different perspectives on when things truly started, from personal encounters with a character named Dill, to historical events involving General Andrew Jackson and Simon Finch, demonstrating a blend of personal and historical context in shaping the narrative's present.
• 72:36 - 109:11: Chapter 4 The chapter opens with a conflict leading to a fistfight and consultation with Atticus. A societal commentary is made on Southern identity and heritage, emphasizing a lack of prestigious ancestry linked to the Battle of Hastings. The Finch family history is introduced through Simon Finch, an ancestor characterized by his piety and stinginess. He, driven by irritation at religious persecution, is noted for emigrating from England.
• 109:11 - 138:05: Chapter 5 Chapter 5 describes Simon's journey and career developments. Simon initially identified as a Methodist and followed a path that took him from Philadelphia to Jamaica, and then to Mobile and St. Stevens. While Simon was successful in building his wealth through practicing medicine, he struggled with his conscience. He was concerned about maintaining his religious principles and feared straying from his faith's teachings, particularly John Wesley's guidance on modesty and the proper use of wealth, such as avoiding ostentatious displays like wearing gold and expensive clothes. This internal conflict led Simon to reassess his life choices.
• 138:05 - 170:30: Chapter 6 Simon was successful as a medical practitioner but felt conflicted as it might lead him away from his religious beliefs. He was concerned that his profession might tempt him to engage in actions not aligned with the glory of God, similar to wearing gold and expensive clothing, thus forgetting his faith.
• 170:30 - 196:41: Chapter 7 Chapter 7 focuses on the establishment of a homestead by a pivotal character, who, adhering to the teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and started a new life on the Alabama River's banks. About 40 miles above St. Stevens, he set up his estate, making a rare return to St. Stevens to find a wife. Together they established a lineage noted for its high number of daughters. This character, Simon, lived a long life and amassed considerable wealth. The family tradition developed into remaining on Simon's original homestead, known as Finch's Landing, to continue earning a living through cotton cultivation.
• 196:41 - 253:03: Chapter 8 Chapter 8 describes a self-sufficient society that, although small compared to neighboring empires, produced everything needed for life except for some essentials like ice, wheat flour, and clothing, which were brought in from Mobile by riverboat. Simon, a key figure, would have felt helpless anger over the discord between the North and South, as it left his descendants with only their land. Despite these challenges, the tradition of living off the land continued unbroken into the 20th century, where the narrator's father is introduced.
• 253:03 - 305:02: Chapter 9 Atticus Finch, after studying law in Montgomery, returns to Maycomb to begin his legal practice. His younger brother goes to Boston to study medicine. Their sister, Alexandra, stays at the Landing, marrying a man who spends much time by the river.
• 305:02 - 340:01: Chapter 10 Chapter 10 highlights Atticus Finch's past experiences and values. The chapter discusses Finch's Landing, where Atticus's office in the courthouse is minimalistic, containing just a hat rack, spittoon, checkerboard, and an untouched copy of Alabama law. It also recounts the story of Atticus's first two clients, who were the last to be hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Despite Atticus's advice to plead guilty to lessen their sentence, the clients, members of the Haverford family, chose not to, due to their stubborn nature. The chapter sheds light on Atticus's character and the community's view of the Haverfords.
• 340:01 - 387:44: Chapter 11 Chapter 11 primarily deals with a legal predicame faced by the Herfords, who have found themselves in hot water after a fatal incident involving a blacksmith. The blacksmith's demise was linked to an alleged wrongful detention issue with the mayor. Despite there being three witnesses to their act, the Herfords insisted on their innocence, arguing that the blacksmith deserved his fate. Their stubbornness in maintaining their not-guilty plea in the face of first-degree murder charges limited Atticus's ability to represent them, reducing his role to merely attending their legal proceedings as they faced the consequences of their actions.
• 387:44 - 426:50: Chapter 12 In Chapter 12, the narrative delves into the origins of Atticus Finch's aversion to practicing criminal law. This chapter gives insights into Finch's early years as a lawyer in Maycomb, where financial necessity dictated his practice. Despite his distaste, he managed to support his brother's education, ensuring that John Hale Finch could pursue a career in medicine during an economically challenging period when cotton farming was unprofitable. Once his brother, Uncle Jack, was professionally established, Atticus began to earn a reasonable living from his legal career, which he found more gratifying.
• 426:50 - 458:51: Chapter 13 Chapter 13 introduces the character of Makome, who hails from Makome County where he is well-acquainted with the local residents, and they with him, due to Simon Finch's industrious legacy. The connections are so deep that Makome is either related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town. Despite being well-connected, the town is described as old and worn-out. The narrator recounts how, in the past, during rainy weather the streets would become muddy, grass would grow unattended on sidewalks, and the courthouse was in disrepair, contributing to an overall image of neglect and heat, with scenes of bony mules enduring the sweltering summer days.
• 458:51 - 491:58: Chapter 14 In Chapter 14, the setting is vividly described, capturing the languid pace of life in a small Southern town. The atmosphere is depicted through the slow movements of the townspeople and the oppressive heat of the day. People struggle with the sweltering temperatures, going about their daily activities in a leisurely manner. Descriptive imagery highlights the challenge of enduring the long, hot days, where even the simplest tasks are performed unhurriedly amidst the heat and humidity. The chapter paints a picture of a community where time seems to stretch, and life moves at a relaxed, unhurried pace.
• 491:58 - 531:52: Chapter 15 In Chapter 15, the narrative describes a period characterized by a sense of timelessness and stillness in Maycomb County. The community experiences a vague sense of optimism, although there are no pressing reasons for it, as there is nothing new or exciting happening in or outside the county, and there is a lack of money to spend on goods. The influence of broader societal reassurances, like the famous statement that there is nothing to fear but fear itself, is felt in the community. The Finch family's domestic life is also mentioned briefly, highlighting their routine and contented existence, with the children's relationship with their father, Atticus, and Calpurnia, the family cook, being satisfactory and stable. The community's mundane and slow-paced lifestyle is a backdrop for the more personal and familial interactions within the Finch household.
• 531:52 - 569:15: Chapter 16 The narrator describes the differences between Calpurnia and another unnamed person. Calpurnia is depicted as strict and authoritative, with a strong physical presence and the ability to manage the narrator effectively, often winning their disputes with the backing of Atticus.
• 569:15 - 614:45: Chapter 17 The chapter provides a glimpse into the family history of the narrator, focusing on the presence of a woman named Graham, who had been a constant part of their lives since the narrator's sibling, Jem, was born. The narrator's mother passed away when the narrator was very young, so they never felt her absence. Graham met the narrator's father when he was elected to the state legislature; he was significantly older than Graham. Jem was born in their first year of marriage, followed by the narrator, and two years after that, their mother suddenly died.
• 614:45 - 645:12: Chapter 18 The chapter begins with a reflection on a family member who passed away due to a heart attack, noting it ran in the family. The narrator acknowledges not missing her, but believes her sibling, Jem, did miss her. Jem would sometimes become lost in thought and isolate himself during games, indicating his contemplation of this loss. The setting provides a glimpse into the childhood of the narrator and Jem, outlining their summertime boundaries, which included the house of Mrs. Henry Lafayette two doors north and the Radley Place.
• 645:12 - 686:17: Chapter 19 The setting of Chapter 19 takes place during a summer when the Finch children, Jem and Scout, refrained from causing trouble around the mysterious Radley Place, which was rumored to be inhabited by a mysterious entity. This lore was enough to influence their behavior to remain well-mannered for days. The narrative introduces Dill, who arrives early one summer morning to join Jem and Scout in their play. Their curiosity is piqued by a noise coming from Miss Rachel Haverford's garden, prompting them to investigate and speculate about a puppy there.
• 686:17 - 695:30: Chapter 20 In this chapter, we are introduced to a new character, Charles Baker Harris, who confidently shares that he is capable of reading and is eager to demonstrate his skill. Despite his young age, he asserts that he can help with any reading tasks. Rachel's rat terrier makes an appearance, but the focus quickly shifts to this engaging dialog between Jem and Charles, highlighting his precocious nature and Jem's friendly response. The atmosphere is casual, with an underlying tone of curiosity and friendliness among the children.
• 713:20 - 733:25: Chapter 21 In Chapter 21, Jem and Scout have an intriguing encounter with Charles Baker Harris. Jem notes Scout's love for reading despite her young age and is amused by Charles Baker's long name. There's a playful exchange about names and age, showcasing the children's personalities and their growing camaraderie. Jem's curiosity and sense of humor are evident, as is Scout's precocious nature.
• 733:25 - 752:11: Chapter 22 Dill, whose real name is longer than people think, introduces himself by struggling under a fence. Dill is originally from Meridian, Mississippi, and is spending the summer with his Aunt Miss Rachel in Makome. He mentions that he will be spending every summer there from now on. His family originally hails from Makome County. Dill's mother works for a photographer in Meridian, where she entered his picture in a beautiful child contest.
• 752:11 - 790:06: Chapter 23 Chapter 23 introduces a playful exchange between children over money and entertainment. One of the characters, upon winning $5, gives it to Dill, who spends it on attending picture shows multiple times. This is contrasted with Jem's comment about the lack of picture shows in their town, highlighting their rural setting, where they only have shows at the courthouse occasionally. The conversation turns to Dill’s experiences, where he shares having seen 'Dracula,' earning him respect and curiosity from Jem. Dill, depicted as a unique character, wears distinctive blue linen shorts and has striking snow-colored hair, adding to his mystique among the children.
• 790:06 - 825:03: Chapter 24 In Chapter 24, the narrator describes a character who is white and small like 'Duck fluff,' and someone whom the narrator towers over despite being a year younger. This character, with his changeable blue eyes and joyful laugh, retells an old tale while habitually pulling at a cowlick in the center of his forehead. The conversation shifts to Dill, who compares Dracula's story and a show, leading to a personal question about his father. Dill reveals he does not have one, clarifying in a poignant moment that his father is not dead, thus leaving the question of his existence open and unresolved.
• 825:03 - 843:27: Chapter 25 Dill becomes an accepted member of the group, as indicated by Jem's approval and Dill's blushing. The summer is characterized by routine activities and contentment. The children spend their time improving their treehouse, which is situated between two large China Berry trees. They also engage in play-acting their favorite stories based on the works of authors like Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dill's presence is appreciated as he contributes to their imaginative play.
• 843:27 - 861:23: Chapter 26 In Chapter 26, the narrator reflects on the various roles they have played and the characters they have embodied, such as the ape in Tarzan and Mr. Crabtree in the Rover Boys. They describe their acquaintance, Dill, as a 'pocket Merlin' with peculiar plans and fancies. By the end of summer, they find their usual activities monotonous, prompting Dill to suggest an intriguing new adventure—luring Boo Radley to come out of his mysterious house. This idea stems from Dill's fascination with the Radley place, which captivates his imagination despite its eerie and enigmatic aura.
• 861:23 - 883:59: Chapter 27 Chapter 27 of the story captures the intriguing allure and mystery of the Radley Place, akin to how the moon pulls water but maintains a distance. The character is likened to the light pole on the street corner, staying a safe distance from the gate of the Radley Place. This location holds a particular menace and fascination, evident as the character stands embraced by anticipation, staring and wondering about the enigma that is the Radley Place. The house, once white and inviting with its deep front porch and green shutters, now presents a darkened visage due to years of neglect, amplifying its ominous presence near the curve past the protagonist's home.
• 883:59 - 892:57: Chapter 28 The chapter introduces a mysterious and eerie setting, as it describes a slate gray yard with rain-rotted shingles and a crooked picket fence. The oak trees shade the area, adding to the gloomy atmosphere, while the yard is overtaken by wild grass and rabbit tobacco. Inside the nearby house is believed to reside a malevolent Phantom, feared and mysterious, as locals claim he comes out at night to peer through windows. Despite these rumors, the narrator and Jem have never seen this elusive figure.
• 936:40 - 954:16: Chapter 29 Chapter 29 explores the fear and suspicion surrounding the Radley Place in the town of Makome. The chapter reveals that the townspeople are quick to attribute small crimes and strange events to the mysterious Radley Place, even when evidence points elsewhere. For instance, during a cold snap, people's aelas freeze suspiciously, and they recall the stealthy crimes believed to be orchestrated by an unseen presence. The town is also disturbed by morbid events involving mutilated chickens and pets, initially blamed on the Radley Place. However, the true culprit turns out to be Crazy Addie, who meets a tragic end by drowning himself at Barker's Eddie. Despite the truth, the Radley Place continues to be shadowed by suspicion.
• 954:16 - 964:58: Chapter 30 In Chapter 30, the narrative describes the fear and superstition surrounding the Radley place in the community. It highlights how people, especially African-Americans, would avoid passing by the Radley house at night to the extent of crossing the street to the opposite sidewalk, whistling as they walked past the foreboding area. Children were warned not to touch the pecans from the Radley chicken yard as they believed they were poisonous, and a baseball hit into the yard was considered as good as lost. This chapter sets the scene of the long-standing dread associated with the Radley household, hinting at the origins of its dire reputation.
• 973:50 - 990:01: Chapter 31 In Chapter 31, the narrator reflects on the reclusive nature of the Radley family before the birth of Jem and Scout. It highlights how the Radleys preferred isolation, rarely interacting with the local community of Maycomb. Unlike their town's customs, they did not attend church, which was central to social life, and Mrs. Radley was known to avoid typical social gatherings like morning coffee with neighbors. Mr. Radley's routine was strictly limited to walking to town every morning, emphasizing the family's disconnect from the community.

Full audiobook "To Kill a Mockingbird" By Harper Lee #harperlee #audiobookclub #audiobook Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 thank you for choosing audio book club please subscribe to the channel and share this video if you like content like this enjoy To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee dedicate for Mister Lee and Alice in consideration of love and affection lawyers I suppose were children once Charles Lamb part 1 chapter 1 when he was nearly 13 my brother gem got his arm badly broken at the elbow when it healed
• 00:30 - 01:00 and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged he was seldom self-conscious about his injury his left arm was somewhat shorter than his right when he stood or walked the back of his hand was at right angles to his body his thumb parallel to his thigh he couldn't have cared less so long as he could pass and punt when enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them we sometimes discuss the events leading to his accident I Main that the
• 01:00 - 01:30 uls started at all but Jem who was four years my senior said it started long before that he said it began the summer Dill came to us when Dill first gave us the idea of making bu Radley come out I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing it really began with Andrew Jackson if General Jackson had not run the Creeks up the creek Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama and where would we be if he had not we were far too old to settle an argument
• 01:30 - 02:00 with a fist fight so we consulted attakus our father said we were both right being Southerners it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings all we had was Simon Finch a fur trapping Apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess in England Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves methodists at the hands of their more Al Brethren and as
• 02:00 - 02:30 Simon called himself a Methodist he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia then to Jamaica then to mobile and up the St Stevens mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling Simon made a pile practicing medicine but in this Pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God as the putting on of gold and costly apparel so Simon having forgotten
• 02:30 - 03:00 his teachers mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling Simon made a pile practicing medicine but in this Pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God as the putting on of gold and costly apparel so Simon having forgotten his
• 03:00 - 03:30 teacher dictum on the possession of human chattles bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some 40 mil above St Stevens he returned to St Stevens only once to find a wife and with her established a line that ran high to daughters Simon lived to an impressive age and died Rich it was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's Homestead Finch's landing and make their living from cotton the place
• 03:30 - 04:00 was self-sufficient modest in comparison with the empires around it the landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice wheat flour and articles of clothing supplied by riverboats from mobile Simon would have regarded with impotent Fury the disturbance between the North and the South as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the 20th century when my father
• 04:00 - 04:30 attakus Finch went to Montgomery to read law and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine their sister Alexandra was the finch who remained at the Landing she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his Trot lines were full when my father was admitted to the bar he returned to makome and began his practice makome some 20 mil east of
• 04:30 - 05:00 Finch's Landing was the county seat of makome County atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack a spatoon a checkerboard and an unsullied Cod of Alabama his first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the makome county jail attacus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives but they were haverford's in makome County a name synonymous with jackass
• 05:00 - 05:30 the herfords had dispatched mom's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful Detention of a mayor were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three Witnesses and insisted that the son of a had it coming to him was a good enough defense for anybody they persisted in pleading not guilty to first-degree murder so there was nothing much attakus could do for his clients except be present at their departure
• 05:30 - 06:00 an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the for the practice of criminal law during his first 5 years in makome attakus practiced economy more than anything for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education John hail Finch was 10 years younger than my father and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing but after getting Uncle Jack started attakus derived a reasonable income from the law he liked
• 06:00 - 06:30 makome he was makome County born and bred he knew his people they knew him and because of Simon Finch's industry attakus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town makome was an old town but it was a tired old town when I first knew it in rainy weather the streets turned to Red slop grass grew on the sidewalks the courthouse sagged in the Square somehow it was hotter then a black dog offered on a summer's day bony mules hitched to
• 06:30 - 07:00 Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the Live Oaks on the Square men's stiff collars wilted by 9 in the morning ladies bathed before noon after their 3:00 naps and by Nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum people moved slowly then they ambled across the square shuffled in and out of the stores around it took their time about everything a day was 20 2 4 hours long
• 07:00 - 07:30 but seemed longer there was no hurry for there was nowhere to go nothing to buy and no money to buy it with nothing to see outside the boundaries of makome County but it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people makome County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself we lived on the main residential street in town- attakus Gemini I plus calpernia our cook Gemini found our father satisfactory he played with with us read
• 07:30 - 08:00 to us and treated us with courteous Detachment caleria was something else again she was all angles and Bones she was nearsighted she squinted her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard she was always ordering me out of the kitchen asking me why I could not behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older and calling me home when I was not ready to come our battles were epic and one-sided calpernia always won mainly because attakus always took her side she
• 08:00 - 08:30 had been with us ever since gem was born and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember our mother died when I was two so I never felt her absence she was a Graham from Montgomery attakus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature he was middle-aged then she was 15 years his Junior gem was the product of their first year of marriage 4 years later I was born and 2 years later our mother died from a sudden
• 08:30 - 09:00 heart attack they said it ran in her family I did not miss her but I think Jem did he remembered her clearly and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length then go off and play by himself behind the carouse when he was like that I knew better than to bother him when I was almost six and Gem was nearly 10 our summertime boundaries within calling distance of calpernia were Mrs Henry Lafayette de's House two doors to the north of us and the Radley Place three
• 09:00 - 09:30 doors to the South we were never tempted to break them the Radley place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end Mrs stalk dubos was playing hell that was the summer Dill came to us early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the backyard Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel haverford's Collard patch we went to the wire fence to see if there was a puppy Miss
• 09:30 - 10:00 Rachel's rat terrier was expecting instead we found someone sitting and looking at us sitting down he was not much higher than the collards we stared at him until he spoke hey hey yourself said Jem pleasantly I am Charles Baker Harris he said I can read so what I said I just thought you would like to know I can read you got anything that needs reading I can do it how old are you asked Jem 4 and a half going on seven
• 10:00 - 10:30 shoot no wonder then said Jem jerking his thumb at me Scout Yonder has been reading ever since she was born and she has not even started to school yet you look right puny for going on seven I am little but I am old he said Jem brushed his hair back to get a better look why do not you come over Charles Baker Harris he said Lord what a name is not any funnier than yours Aunt Rachel says your name is Jeremy attakus Finch gem Scout I am big enough to fit mine he said your
• 10:30 - 11:00 name is longer than you are bet it is a foot longer folks call me Dill said Dill struggling under the fence do better if you go over it instead of under it I said where did you come from Dill was from Meridian Mississippi was spending the summer with his aunt Miss Rachel and would be spending every summer in makome from now on his family was from makome County originally his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian had entered his picture in a beautiful child contest
• 11:00 - 11:30 and won $5 she gave the money to Dill who went to the picture show 20 times on it do not have any picture shows here except Jesus ones in the courthouse sometimes said Jem ever see anything good Dill had seen Dracula a revelation that moved gem to eye him with the beginning of respect tell it to us he said Dill was a curiosity he wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt his hair was Snow
• 11:30 - 12:00 White and stuck to his head like Duck fluff he was a year my senior but I towered over him as he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken his laugh was sudden and happy he habitually pulled at a cowc in the center of his forehead when Dill reduced Dracula to dust and Jem said the show sounded better than the book I asked Dill where his father was you ain't said anything about him I have not got one is he dead no then if he's not dead you've got one
• 12:00 - 12:30 have you not Dill blushed and Jem told me to hush a sure sign that Dill had been studied and found acceptable thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment routine contentment was improving our tree house that rested between giant twin China Berry trees in the backyard fussing running through our list of Dramas based on the works of Oliver optic Victor Appleton and Edgar Rice Burrows in this matter we were lucky to have Dill he played the
• 12:30 - 13:00 character Parts formerly thrust upon me the ape in Tarzan Mister Crabtree in the Rover boys Mis Damon and Tom Swift thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin whose head teamed with eccentric plans strange longings and quaint fancies but by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making bu Radley come out the Radley place fascinated Dill in spite of our
• 13:00 - 13:30 warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water but Drew him no nearer than the light pole on the corner a safe distance from the Radley gate there he would stand his arm around the fat pole staring and wondering the Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house walking South one faced its porch the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot the house was low was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters but had long ago darkened
• 13:30 - 14:00 to the color of the slate gray yard around it rain rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of The Veranda oak trees kept the Sun away the remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard a swept yard that was never swept where Johnson grass and rabbit tobacco grew in abundance inside the house lived a malevolent Phantom people said he existed but Jem and I had never seen him people said he went out at night when the moon was down and peeped in Windows
• 14:00 - 14:30 When people's aelas froze in a cold snap it was because he had breathed on them any stealthy small crimes committed in makome were his work once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated although the culprit was crazy Addie who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddie people still looked at the Radley Place unwilling to discard their initial suspicions
• 14:30 - 15:00 a negro would not pass the Radley place at night he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked the makome school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot from the Radley chicken yard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard but the nuts lay Untouched by the children Radley pecans would kill you a baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked the misery of that house began many years
• 15:00 - 15:30 before Jem and I were born the Radley welcome anywhere in town kept to themselves a predilection unforgivable in makome they did not go to church mak's principal Recreation but woried at home Mrs Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a midm morning coffee break with her neighbors and certainly never joined a missionary Circle Mr Radley walked to town at 11:30 every morning and came back promptly at 12: some sometimes carrying a brown
• 15:30 - 16:00 paper bag that the neighborhood assumed contained the family groceries I never knew how old mister Radley made his living gem said he bought cotton a polite term for doing nothing but Mr Radley and his wife had lived there with their two sons as long as anybody could remember the shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays another thing alien to mak's ways closed doors meant illness and cold weather only of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon
• 16:00 - 16:30 visiting ladies wore corsets men wore coats children wore shoes but to climb the Radley front steps and call he of a Sunday afternoon was something their neighbors never did the Radley house had no screen doors I once asked attakus if it ever had any attakus said yes but before I was born according to Neighborhood Legend when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the cunninghams from old serum an enormous and confusing
• 16:30 - 17:00 tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in makum they did little but enough to be discussed by the town and publicly warned from three pulpits they hung around the barber shop they rode the bus to abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show they attended dances at the County's Riverside gambling hell the do Drop Inn and fishing camp they experimented with stumphole
• 17:00 - 17:30 whiskey nobody in makome had nerve enough to tell Mister Radley that his boy was in with the wrong crowd One Night in an excessive Spurt of High Spirits the boys backed around the square in a borrowed fli resisted arrest by mak's ancient Beetle Mister Connor and locked him in the courthouse ouse the town decided something had to be done Mister Connor said he knew who each and every one of them was and he was bound and deter determined they would not get away with it so the boys came
• 17:30 - 18:00 before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct disturbing the peace assault and battery and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female the judge asked mister Connor why he included the last charge Mister Connor said they cussed so loud he was sure every lady in makome heard them the judge decided to send the boys to the state industrial school where boys were some time sent for no other reason than
• 18:00 - 18:30 to provide them with food and decent shelter it was no prison and it was no disgrace Mister Radley thought it was if the judge released Arthur Mister Radley would see to it that Arthur gave no further trouble knowing that Mr Radley's word was his bond the judge was glad to do so the other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at
• 18:30 - 19:00 Auburn the doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays and Mis Radley's boy was not seen again for 15 years but there came a day barely within Jem's memory when bu Radley was heard from and was seen by several people but not by Jim he said attakus never talked much about the Radley's when Jem would question him atticus's only answer was for him to mind his own business and let the Radley mind theirs they had a right to but when
• 19:00 - 19:30 it happened gem said attakus shook his head and said M so Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford a neighborhood scold who said she knew the whole thing according to miss Stephanie Buu was sitting in the living room cutting some items from the makome Tribune to paste in his scrapbook his father entered the room as Mister Bradley passed by Buu drove the scissors into his parents leg pulled
• 19:30 - 20:00 them out wiped them on his pants and resumed his activities Mrs Radley ran screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all but when the sheriff arrived he found Buu still sitting in the living room cutting up the Tribune he was 33 years old then miss Stephanie said old mister Radley said no Radley was going to any Asylum when it was suggested that a season in Tuscaloosa might be helpful to Buu Buu wasn't crazy he was high strung at times
• 20:00 - 20:30 it was all right to shut him up mister Radley conceded but insisted that boo not be charged with anything he was not a criminal the sheriff had not the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes so Buu was locked in the courthouse basement Buu's transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem's memory Miss Stephanie Crawford said some of the Town Council told Mister Radley that if he did not take boo back Buu would die of mold from The
• 20:30 - 21:00 Damp besides Buu could not live forever on the Bounty of the county nobody knew what form of intimidation Mister Radley employed to keep Buu out of sight but gem figured that mister Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time attakus said no it wasn't that sort of thing that there were other ways of making people into ghosts my memory came alive to see Mrs Radley occasionally opens the front door walks to the edge of the porch and pours water on her
• 21:00 - 21:30 canas but every day Gem and I would see Mister Bradley walking to and from town he was a thin leathery man with colorless eyes so colorless they did not reflect light his cheekbones were sharp and his mouth was wide with a thin upper lip and a full lower lip Miss Stephanie Crawford said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law and we believed her because Mis Radley's posture was Ram R straight he never
• 21:30 - 22:00 spoke to us when he passed we would look at the ground and say good morning sir and he would cough in reply Mister Radley's Elder son lived in Pensacola he came home at Christmas and he was one of the few persons we ever saw enter or leave the place from the day Mister Radley took Arthur home people said the house died but there came a day when attacus told us he would wear us out if we made any noise in the yard and commissioned caleria to serve in his absence if she heard a sound out of
• 22:00 - 22:30 us Mister Radley was dying he took his time about it wooden saw horses blocked the road at each end of the Radley lot straw was put down on the sidewalk traffic was diverted to the back street doctor Reynolds parked his car in front of our house and walked to the Radley's every time he called Gem and I crept around the yard for days at last the saw horses were taken away and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr Ro
• 22:30 - 23:00 Radley made his final Journey past our house there goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into murmured caleria and she spat meditatively into the yard we looked at her in surprise for calpernia rarely commented on the ways of white people the neighborhood thought when Mis Radley went under buo would come out but it had another thing coming Buu's elder brother returned from Pensacola and took Mister Bradley place the only difference between him and his
• 23:00 - 23:30 father was their ages Jem said mister Nathan Radley bought cotton too mister Nathan would speak to us however when we said good morning and sometimes we saw him coming from town with a magazine in his hand the more we told Dill about the Radley the more he wanted to know the longer he would stand hugging the light pole on the corner the more he would wonder wonder what he does in there he would murmur looks like he would just stick his head out the door Jem said he
• 23:30 - 24:00 goes out all right when it is pitch dark Miss Stephanie Crawford said she woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw him looking straight through the window at her said his head was like a skull looking at her ain't you ever woken up at night and Hur him Dill He Walks Like This gem slid his feet through the gravel why do you think Miss Rachel locks up so tight at night I have have seen his tracks in our backyard many a morning and one night I
• 24:00 - 24:30 heard him scratching on the back screen but he was gone by the time attakus got there wonder what he looks like said Dill gem gave a reasonable description of Buu Buu was about 6 and 1/2 ft tall judging from his tracks he dined on Raw squirrels and any cats he could catch that is why his hands were Blood Stained if you ate an animal raw you could never wash the blood off there was a long Jagged scar that ran across his face
• 24:30 - 25:00 what teeth he had were yellow and rotten his eyes popped and he drooled most of the time let us try to make him come out said Dill I would like to see what he looks like Jem said if dill wanted to get himself killed all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem the grey ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem would not get any farther than the Radley gate in all his life gem had never declined a dare gem
• 25:00 - 25:30 thought about it for 3 days I suppose he loved honor more than his head for dill wore him down easily you are scared Dill said the first day ain't scared just respectful Jem said the next day Dill said you are too scared even to put your big toe in the front yard Jem said he reckoned he was not he had passed the Radley place every school day of his life always running I said but Dill got him the third day day when he told Jem that folks in Meridian certainly weren't
• 25:30 - 26:00 as afraid as the folks in makome that he'd never seen such scary folks as the ones in makum this was enough to make Jem March to the corner where he stopped and leaned against the light pole watching the gate hanging crazily on its homemade hinge I hope you have got it through your head that he will kill us each and every one Dill Harris said gem when we joined him don't blame me when he gouges your eyes out you started it remember you are still
• 26:00 - 26:30 scared murmured Dill patiently Jem wanted Dill to know once and for all that he was not scared of anything it is just that I cannot think of a way to make him come out without him getting us besides gem had his little sister to think of when he said that I knew he was afraid gem had his little sister to think of the time I dared him to jump off the top of the house if I got killed what would become of you he asked then he jumped landed unhe hurt and his
• 26:30 - 27:00 sense of responsibility left him until confronted by the Radley place you are going to run out on a dare asked Dill if you are then Dash Dill you have to think about these things Jem said let me think a minute it is sort of like making a turtle come out how is that asked Dill strike a match under him I told Jim if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell attacus on him Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful ain't hateful just persuades him
• 27:00 - 27:30 it is not like you would chunk him in the Fire Gem growled how do you know a match does not hurt him Turtles cannot feel stupid said gem were you ever a turtle huh my stars Dill now let me think reckon we can rock him gem stood in thought so long that Dill made a mild concession I won't say you ran out on a dare and I'll swap you the gray ghost if you just go up and touch the house gem brightened touch the house that all
• 27:30 - 28:00 question mark Dill nodded sure that is all now I do not want you hollering something different the minute I get back yeah that is all said Dill he will probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard then Scout and I will jump on him and hold him down until we can tell him we are not going to hurt him we left the corner crossed the side street that ran in front of the Radley house and stopped at the gate well go on said Dill scouting me are right behind
• 28:00 - 28:30 you I am going said jemo not hurry me he walked to the corner of the lot then back again studying the simple terrain as if deciding how best to affect an entry frowning and scratching his head then I sneered at him Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house slapped it with his palm and ran back past us not waiting to see if his foray was successful dill and I followed on his heels safely on our porch panting and out of breath we looked back the old
• 28:30 - 29:00 house was the same droopy and sick but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move flick a tiny almost invisible movement and the house was still chapter 2 Dill left us early in September to returned to Meridian we saw him off on the 5:00 bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school
• 29:00 - 29:30 in a week I never looked forward more to anything in my life hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse looking over at the schoolyard spying on multitudes of children through a two- power telescope gem had given me learning their games following Gem's Red Jacket through wriggling circles of Blind Man's buff secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories I longed to join them gem condescended to take me to school the first day a job usually done by one's
• 29:30 - 30:00 parents but attakus had said gem would be delighted to show me where my room was I think some money changed hands in this transaction for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's Pockets when we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard gem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the ant-men to
• 30:00 - 30:30 embarrass him with references to his private life or tag along behind him at recess and noon I was to stick with the first grade and he would stick with the fifth in short I was to leave him alone you mean we cannot play anymore I asked we will do like we always do at home he said but you will see school is different it certainly was before the first morning was over Miss Caroline fiser our teacher hauled me up to the front of the room and patted the palm of
• 30:30 - 31:00 my hand with a ruler then made me stand in the corner until noon Miss Caroline was no more than 21 she had bright auburn hair pink cheeks and wore Crimson fingernail polish she also wore high heeled pumps and a red and white striped dress she looked and smelled like a peppermint drop she boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss motty Atkinson's upstairs front room and When Miss motty introduced us to her gem
• 31:00 - 31:30 was in a haze for days Miss Caroline printed her name on the Blackboard and said this says I am Miss Caroline fiser I am from North Alabama from Winston County the class murmured apprehensively should she prove to Harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region when Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11th 1861 Winston County seceded from Alabama and every child in makome County knew it North Alabama was full of liquor
• 31:30 - 32:00 interests big mules steel companies Republicans professors and other persons of no background Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats the cats had long conversations with one another they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove by the time Mrs cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucket full of katabo worms Miss Caroline seemed unaware that
• 32:00 - 32:30 the Ragged Denim shirted and flower sack skirted first grade most of whom had chopped cotton and fed Hogs from the time they were able to walk were immune to imaginative literature Miss Caroline came to the end of the story and said oh my wasn't that nice then she went to the Blackboard and printed the alphabet in enormous Square capitals turned to the class and asked does anybody know what these are everybody did most of the first grade had failed it last year I suppose
• 32:30 - 33:00 she chose me because she knew my name as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows and after making me read most of my first reader and the stock market quotations from the Mobile Register allowed she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore it would interfere with my reading teach me me I said in surprise he hasn't taught
• 33:00 - 33:30 me anything Miss Caroline attakus ain't got time to teach me anything I added When Miss Caroline smiled and shook her head why he is so tired at night he just sits in the living room and reads if he did not teach you who did Miss Caroline asked good-naturedly somebody did you weren't born reading the Mobile Register Jem says I was he read in a book where I was a bullfinch instead of a finch Jem said says my name is really Jean Louise bullfinch that I got swapped when I was
• 33:30 - 34:00 born and I am really a Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying let us not let our imaginations run away with us dear she said now you tell your father not to teach you anymore it is best to begin reading with a fresh mind you tell him I will take over from here and try to undo the damage ma'am your father does not know how to teach you can have a seat now I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime I never
• 34:00 - 34:30 deliberately learned to read but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers in the long hours of church was it then I learned I could not remember not being able to read hymns now that I was compelled to think about it reading was something that just came to me as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around or achieving Two bows from a snarl of shoelaces I could not remember when when the lines above atticus's moving finger
• 34:30 - 35:00 separated into words but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory listening to the news of the day bills to be enacted into laws the Diaries of Lorenzo da anything attakus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night until I feared I would lose it I never loved to read one does not love breathing I knew I had annoyed Miss Caroline so I let well enough alone and stared out the window until recess when gem cut me from the cvy of first graders
• 35:00 - 35:30 in the schoolyard he asked how I was getting along I told him if I did not have to stay I would leave Jem that damn lady says attakus has been teaching me to read and for him to stop it don't worry Scout Jem comforted me our teacher says Miss Caroline is introducing a new way of teaching she learned about it in college it will be in all the grades soon you do not have to learn much out of books that way it's like if you want to learn about cows you go milk one see
• 35:30 - 36:00 yeah gem but I do not want to study cows sure you do you have to know about cows they are a big part of life in makome County I contented myself with asking gem if he had lost his mind I'm just trying to tell you the new way they are teaching the first grade stubborn it is The Dewy Decimal System having never questioned Gem's pronouncements I saw no reason to begin now Now The Dewy Decimal System consisted in part of Miss
• 36:00 - 36:30 Caroline waving cards at us on which were printed the cat rat man and you no comments seemed to be expected of us and the class received these impressionistic revelations in silence I was bored so I began a letter to Dill Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me besides she said we do not write in the first grade we print you won't learn to write until you are in the third grade calpernia was
• 36:30 - 37:00 to blame for this it kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days I guess she would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath if I reproduced her penmanship satisfactorily she rewarded me with an open-faced sandwich of bread and butter and sugar in ceria's teaching there was no sentimentality I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me everybody who goes home to lunch hold up your hands
• 37:00 - 37:30 said Miss Caroline breaking into my new grudge against cernia the town children did so and she looked us over everybody who brings his lunch puts it on top of his desk Mass's buckets appeared from nowhere and the ceiling danced with metallic light Miss Caroline walked up and down the rows peering and poking into lunch containers nodding if the contents pleased her frowning a little at others she stopped at Walter Cunningham's desk
• 37:30 - 38:00 where is yours she asked Walter Cunningham's face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms his absence of shoes told us how he got them people caught hookworms going barefooted in barnards and hog wallows if Walter had owned any shoes he would have worn them the first day of school and then discarded them until midwinter he did have on a clean shirt and neatly mended overalls did you forget your lunch this morning asked Miss Caroline Walter looked straight
• 38:00 - 38:30 ahead I saw a muscle jump in his skinny jaw did you forget it this morning asked Miss Caroline Walter's jaw twitched again ye he finally mumbled Miss Caroline went to her desk and opened her purse here is a quarter she said to Walter go and eat downtown today you can pay me back tomorrow Walter shook his head Nome thank you ma'am he drawled softly impatience crept into Miss Caroline's voice here Walter come get it Walter
• 38:30 - 39:00 shook his head again when Walter shook his head a third time someone whispered go on and tell her Scout I turned around and saw most of the Town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding I Rose graciously on Walter's behalf ah Miss Caroline what is it John louiz Miss Caroline he is a
• 39:00 - 39:30 cunning him what John Lise I thought I had made things sufficiently clear it was clear enough to the rest of us Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off he didn't forget his lunch he didn't have any he had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day he had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life I tried again Walters one of the cunninghams Miss Caroline I beg your pardon John L that is okay
• 39:30 - 40:00 ma'am you will get to know all the county folks after a while the cunninghams never took anything they cannot pay back no church baskets and no script stamps they never took anything off of anybody they get along on what they have they do not have much but they get along on it my special knowledge of the Cunningham tribe one branch that is was gained from events of last winter Walter's father was one of attakus clients after a dreary conversation in
• 40:00 - 40:30 our living room one night about his entailment before Mr Cunningham left he said Mr Finch I do not know when I will ever be able to pay you let that be the least of your worries Walter attakus said when I asked Jem what entailment was and Gem described it as a condition of having your tail in a crack I asked attacus if Mr Cunningham would ever pay us not in money attakus said but before the years out I will have been paid you watch we watched one morning Jem and I
• 40:30 - 41:00 found a load of stove wood in the backyard later a sack of Hickory nuts appeared on the back steps with Christmas came a crate of SMX and Holly that spring when we found a croaker sack full of turnip greens attakus said mister Cunningham had more than paid him why does he pay you like that I asked because that is the only way he can pay me he has no money are we poor attakus attakus nodded we are indeed jemk nose
• 41:00 - 41:30 wrinkled are we as poor as the cunninghams not exactly the cunninghams are country folks farmers and the Crash hit them hardest attakus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor as makome County was Farm country nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers entailment was only a part of Mister Cunningham's vexations the Acres not entailed were mortgage to the hilt and the little cash he made went to
• 41:30 - 42:00 interest if he held his mouth right mister Cunningham could get a works progress administration job but his land would go to ruin if he left it and he was willing to go hungry to keep his land and vote as he pleased Mister Cunningham said attacus came from a set breed of men as the cunninghams had no money to pay a lawyer they simply paid us with what they had did you know said attakus that doct Reynolds works the same way he charges some folks a bushel
• 42:00 - 42:30 of potatoes for delivery of a baby Mis Scout if you give me your attention I will tell you what entailment is Gem's definitions are very nearly accurate sometimes if I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline I would have saved myself some inconvenience and Miss Caroline's subsequent mortification but it was beyond my ability to explain things as well as attacus so I saidou shaming him Miss Caroline Walter hasn't got a quarter at home to bring you and you can't use any stove
• 42:30 - 43:00 wood Miss Caroline stood stock still then grabbed me by the collar and hauled me back to her desk Jean Louise I have had about enough of you this morning she said you are starting off on the wrong foot in every way my dear hold out your hand I thought she was going to spit in it which was the only reason anybody in makome held out his hand it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts wondering what bargain we had made I
• 43:00 - 43:30 turned to the class for an answer but the class looked back at me in puzzlement Miss Caroline picked up her ruler gave me half a dozen quick little Pats then told me to stand in the corner a storm of laughter broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that Miss Caroline had whipped me when Miss Caroline threatened it with a similar fate the first grade exploded again becoming Cold Sober only when the shadow of Miss blown fell over them Miss Blount a native makian as yet
• 43:30 - 44:00 uninitiated in the mysteries of the decimal system appeared at the door hands on hips and announced if I hear another sound from this room I will burn up everybody in it Miss Caroline the sixth grade cannot concentrate on the pyramids for all this racket my sojourn in the corner was a short one Saved by the Bell Miss Caroline watched the class file out for lunch as I was the last to leave I saw her sink down into her chair and bury her head in her arms had her conduct
• 44:00 - 44:30 been more friendly toward me I would have felt sorry for her she was a pretty little thing chapter 3 catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop you are bigger than he is he said he is as old as you nearly I said he made me start off on the wrong foot
• 44:30 - 45:00 let him go Scout why he didn't have any lunch I said and explained my involvement in Walter's dietary Affairs Walter had picked himself up and was standing quietly listening to Jim and me his fists were half cocked as if expecting an onslaught from both of us I stomped at him to chase him away but Jem put out his hand and stopped me he examined Walter with an air of speculation your daddy mister Walter cunning him from old serum question mark he asked and Walter nodded Walter looked
• 45:00 - 45:30 as if he had been raised on fish food his eyes as blue as Dill Harris's were red rimmed and watery there was no color in his face except at the tip of his nose which was moistly pink he fingered the straps of his overalls nervously picking at the metal hooks gem Suddenly grinned at him come on home to dinner with us Walter he said we would be glad to have you Walter's face brightened then darkened Jem said our daddy is a
• 45:30 - 46:00 friend of your daddy's Scout here she is crazy she will not fight you anymore I wouldn't be too certain of that I said Gem's free dispensation of my pledge irked me but precious noon time minutes were ticking away yeah Walter I will not jump on you again don't you like butter beans our cow's a real good cook Walter stood where he was biting his lip Jem and I gave up and we were nearly to the Radley place when Walter called hey I am
• 46:00 - 46:30 coming when Walter caught up with us Jem made Pleasant conversation with him a haint lives there he said cordially pointing to the Radley house ever hear about him Walter reckon I have said Walter almost died first year I came to school and ate them pecans folks say he poisoned them and put them over on the school side of the fence Jem seemed to have little fear of BU Radley now that Walter and I walked beside him him indeed Jem grew boastful
• 46:30 - 47:00 I went all the way up to the house once he said to Walter anybody who went up to the house once ought to not still run every time he passes it I said to the clouds above and who is running miss pris you are when are not anybody with you by the time we reached our front steps Walter had forgotten he was a Cunningham Jem ran to the kitchen and asked cernia to set an extra plate we had company attus greeted Walter and began a discussion about crops neither
• 47:00 - 47:30 Jem nor I could follow reason I can't pass the first grade Mister Finch is I have had to stay out every spring and help Papa with the chopping but there is another one at the house now that is field siiz did you pay a bushel of potatoes for him I asked but attakus shook his head at me while Walter piled food on his plate he and attakus talked together like two men to the wonderment of jeem and me attakus was expounding upon Farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any
• 47:30 - 48:00 molasses in the house attacus summoned caleria who returned bearing the syrup pitcher she stood waiting for Walter to help himself Walter poured syrup on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand he would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the Sam Hill he was doing the silver saucer clattered when he replaced the pitcher and he quickly put his hands in his lap then he ducked his head attakus shook
• 48:00 - 48:30 his head at me again but he is gone and drowned his dinner in syrup I protested he has poured it all over Dash it was then that calpernia requested my presence in the kitchen she was Furious and when she was Furious ceria's grammar became erratic when in Tranquility her grammar was as good as anybody's in makome attakus said calpernia had more education than most colored folks when she squinted down at me the tiny lines around her eyes deepened there is some
• 48:30 - 49:00 folks who do not eat like us she whispered fiercely but you are not called on to contradict them at the table when they do not that boy's your company and if he wants to eat up the tablecloth you let him you hear he ain't company Cal he's just a cunning ham hush your mouth does not matter who they are anybody sets foot in this house is your company and do not you let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty yo folks might be better
• 49:00 - 49:30 than the cunninghams but it does not count for nothing the way you are disgracing them if you cannot act fit to eat at the table you can just sit here and eat in the kitchen calpernia sent me through the swinging door to the dining room with a stinging smack I retrieved my plate and finished dinner in the kitchen thankful though that I was spared the humiliation of facing them again I told calpernia to to just wait I would fix her one of these days when she
• 49:30 - 50:00 was not looking I would go off and drown myself in Barker's Eddie and then she would be sorry besides I added she had already gotten me in trouble once today she had taught me to write and it was all her fault hush your fussing she said Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me staying behind to advise attakus of ceria's iniquities was worth a solitary Sprint past the Radley place she likes gem better than she likes me anyway I concluded and suggested that attakus lose no time in packing her off
• 50:00 - 50:30 have you ever considered that Jem does not worry her half as much atticus's voice was flinty I have no intention of getting rid of her now or ever we couldn't operate a single day without Cal have you ever thought of that you think about how much Cal does for you and you mind her you hear I returned to school and hated Cal peria steadily until a sudden shriek shattered my res resentments I looked up to see Miss Caroline standing in the middle of the
• 50:30 - 51:00 room sheer horror flooding her face apparently she had revived enough to persevere in her profession it is alive she screamed the male population of the class rushed as one to her assistance Lord I thought she is scared of a mouse little Chuck little whose patience with all living things was phenomenal said which way did he go Miss Caroline tell us where he went quick DC he turned to a boy behind him DC shut
• 51:00 - 51:30 the door and we will catch him quick ma'am where did he go Miss Caroline pointed a shaking finger not at the floor nor at a desk but to a hulking individual unknown to me little Chuck's face contracted and he said gently you mean him ma'am yes him he's alive did he scare you some way Miss Caroline said desperately I was just walking by when it crawled out of his hair just crawled out of his hair little Chuck grinned broadly there ain't no
• 51:30 - 52:00 need to fear a cooe ma'am ain't you ever seen one now do not you be afraid you just go back to your desk and teach us some more little Chuck little was another member of the population who didn't know where his next meal was coming from but he was a born gentleman he put his hand under her elbow and led Miss Caroline to the front of the room now do not you fret Madam he said there ain't no need to fear a cooie I will just fetch you some cool water
• 52:00 - 52:30 the Cy's host showed not the faintest interest in the furer he had wrought he searched the scalp above his forehead located his guest and pinched it between his thumb and forefinger Miss Caroline watched the process in horrid Fascination little Chuck brought water in a paper cup and she drank it gratefully finally she found her voice what is your name son she asked softly the boy blinked who me Miss Caroline nodded buris Ule Miss
• 52:30 - 53:00 Caroline inspected her role book I have a Ule here but I do not have a first name would you spell your first name for me don't know how they call me bis's home well burus said Miss Caroline I think we would better excuse you for the rest of the afternoon I want you to go home and wash your hair from her desk she produced a thick volume leafed through its pages and read for a moment good home remedy for burus I want you to go home and wash your hair with lie soap
• 53:00 - 53:30 when you have done that treat your scalp with kerosine what for Mrs to get rid of the outies you see burus the other children might catch them and you would not want that would you the boy stood up he was the filthiest human I had ever seen his neck was dark gray the backs of his hands were Rusty and his fingernails were black deep into the quick he peered at Miss car oline from a fist-sized clean space on his face no one had
• 53:30 - 54:00 noticed him probably because Miss Caroline and I had entertained the class most of the morning and buris said Miss Caroline please bathe yourself before you come back tomorrow the boy laughed rudely you are not sending me home Mrs I was on the verge of leaving I have done my time for this year Miss Caroline looked puzzled what do you mean by that the boy did not answer he gave a short contemptuous snort one of the elderly members of the class answered her he is
• 54:00 - 54:30 one of the uls ma'am and I wondered if this explanation would be as unsuccessful as my attempt but Miss Caroline seemed willing to listen whole school is full of them they come first day every year and then leave the truant lady gets them here because she threatens them with the sheriff but she has given up trying to hold them she reckons she has carried out the law just getting their names on the roll and running them here the first day you
• 54:30 - 55:00 supposed to mark them absent the rest of the year but what about their parents asked Miss Caroline in genuine concern ain't got no mother was the answer and their paws right contentious buris uul was flattered by the recital been coming to the first day of the first grade for three year now he said expansively reckon if I'm smart this year they will promote me to the second Miss Caroline said sit back down please burus and the moment she said it I knew she had made a
• 55:00 - 55:30 serious mistake the boy's condescension flashed to anger you try and make me Mrs little Chuck little got to his feet let him go ma'am he said he is a Mean One a hard down mean one he is liable to start something and there is some little folks here he was among the most diminutive of men but when burus Ule turned toward him little Chuck's right hand went to his pocket watch your step burus he said I
• 55:30 - 56:00 would soon kill you as look at you now go home burus seemed to be afraid of a child half his height and Miss Caroline took advantage of his indecision burus go home if you do not I will call the principal she said I will have to report this anyway the boy snorted and slouched leisurely to the door safely out of range he turned and shouted report and be damned to you ain't no snot-nosed of a school teacher ever born can make me do nothing you are not making me
• 56:00 - 56:30 go nowhere Mrs you just remember that you are not making me go nowhere he waited until he was sure she was crying then he shuffled out of the building soon we were clustered around her desk trying in our various ways to comfort her he was a real mean one below the belt you ain't called on to teach folks like that that ain't make's ways Miss Caroline not really now do not you fret Madam Miss Caroline
• 56:30 - 57:00 why do not you read us a story that cat thing was really fine this morning Miss Caroline smiled blew her nose said Thank You Darlings dispersed us opened a book and mystified the first grade with a long narrative about a toad frog that lived in a hall when I passed the Radley place for the fourth time that day twice at a full Gallop my Gloom had deepened to match the house if the remainder of the school year were were as fraught with drama as the first day perhaps it would be mildly entertaining but the
• 57:00 - 57:30 prospect of spending 9 months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away by late afternoon most of my traveling plans were complete when Jem and I raced each other up the sidewalk to meet attakus coming home from work I did not give him much of a race it was our habit to run to meet attakus the moment we saw him round the post office corner in the distance attakus seemed to have forgotten my noon time fall from grace he was full of
• 57:30 - 58:00 questions about school my replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me perhaps caleria sensed that my day had been a grim one she let me watch her fix supper shut your eyes and open your mouth and I will give you a surprise she said it was not often that she made crackling bread she said she never had time but with both of us at school today had been an easy one for her she knew I loved crackling bread I missed you today
• 58:00 - 58:30 she said the house got so lonesome long about 2:00 I had to turn on the radio why Jim and me are not ever in the house unless it is raining I know she said but one of you is always in calling distance I wonder how much of the day I spend just calling after you well she said getting up from the kitchen chair it is enough time to make a pan of crackling bread I reckon you run along now and let me get supper on the table caleria bent down and
• 58:30 - 59:00 kissed me I ran along wondering what had come over her she had wanted to make up with me that was it she had always been too hard on me she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways she was sorry and too stubborn to say so I was weary from the day's crimes after supper attakus sat down with the paper and called Scout ready to read the Lord sent me more than I could bear and I went to the front porch attakus followed me
• 59:00 - 59:30 something wrong Scout I told attakus I did not feel very well and did not think I would go to school anymore if it was all right with him attakus sat down in the swing and crossed his legs his fingers wandered to his watch pocket he said that was the only way he could think he waited in amiable silence and I sought to reinforce my position you never went to school and you do all right so I will just stay home too you can teach me like granddaddy taught you
• 59:30 - 60:00 and Uncle Jack no I can't said attakus I have to make a living besides they would put me in jail if I kept you at home Dash dose of Magnesia for you tonight and school tomorrow I am feeling all right really thought so now what is the matter bit by bit I told him the day's misfortunes and she said you taught me all wrong so we cannot ever read anymore ever please do not send me back please sir attacus stood up and walked to the end of the porch when he completed his
• 60:00 - 60:30 examination of the wisteria vine he strolled back to me first of all he said if you can learn a simple trick Scout you will get along a lot better with all kinds of folks you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view sir until you climb into his skin and walk around in it attakus said I had learned many things to day and Miss Caroline had learned several things herself she had learned not to hand something to a
• 60:30 - 61:00 Cunningham for one thing but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we would have seen it was an honest mistake on her part we could not expect her to learn all mak's ways in one day and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better I will be dogged I said I did not know any better than not to read to her and she held me responsible listen at it I do not have to go to school I was bursting with a sudden thought buris o
• 61:00 - 61:30 remember he just goes to school the first day the truant lady reckons she has carried out the law when she gets his name on the role you can't do that Scout atus said sometimes it is better to bend the law a little in special cases in your case the law remains rigid so to school you must go I do not see why I have to when he does not then listen attakus said the ules had been the disgrace of makome for three generations none of them had done an
• 61:30 - 62:00 honest day's work in his recollection he said that some Christmas when he was getting rid of the tree he would take me with him and show me where and how they lived they were people but they lived like animals they can go to school anytime they want to when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education said attakus there are ways of keeping them in school by force but it is silly to force people like the uls into a new environment if I didn't go to
• 62:00 - 62:30 school tomorrow you would force me to let us leave it at this said attakus dryly you miss Scout Finch are of the common folk you must obey the law he said that the uls were members of an exclusive Society made up of uls in certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the uls activities they did not have to go to school for one thing another thing Mis
• 62:30 - 63:00 her Bob Ule bis's father was permitted to hunt and trap out of season adus that is bad I said in makome County hunting out of season was a misdemeanor at law a capital felony in the eyes of the populace it is against the law all right said my father and it is certainly bad but when a man Spends His relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from from Hunger Pains I do not know of any land owner around here who begrudges those children
• 63:00 - 63:30 any game their father can hit Mister E will shouldn't do that of course he should not but he will never change his ways are you going to take out your disapproval on his children no sir I murmured and made a final stand but if I keep on going to school we can't ever read anymore that is really bothering you is it not yes sir when attakus looked down at me I saw the expression on his face that always made me expect something do you know
• 63:30 - 64:00 what a compromise is he asked bending the law no an agreement reached by Mutual concessions it works this way he said if you will concede the necessity of going to school we will go on reading every night just as we always have is it a bargain yes sir we will consider it sealed without the usual formality attakus said when he saw me preparing to spit as as I opened the front screen door attacus said by the way Scout you had better not say anything at school
• 64:00 - 64:30 about our agreement why not I am afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by the more learned authorities Gemini were accustomed to our father's last will and testament diction and we were at all times free to interrupt attacus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding H sir I never went to school he said but but I have a feeling that if you tell Miss Caroline we read every night she will get after me and I
• 64:30 - 65:00 would not want her after me attakus kept us in fits that evening Gravely reading Columns of print about a man who sat on a flag pole for no discernible reason which was reason enough for Jem to spend the following Saturday a loft in the treehouse gem sat from after breakfast until Sunset and would have remained overnight had not attacus severed his supply lines I had spent most of the day climbing up and down running errands for him providing him with literature
• 65:00 - 65:30 nourishment and water and was carrying him blankets for the night when attakus said if I paid no attention to him gem would come down attakus was right chapter 4 the remainder of my school days were no more auspicious than the first indeed they were an endless project that slowly evolved D into a unit in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by
• 65:30 - 66:00 the state of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me group dynamics what gem called The Dewy Decimal System was schoolwide by the end of my first year so I had no chance to compare it with other teaching techniques I could only look around me attacus and my uncle who went to school at home knew everything at least what one did not know the other did furthermore I couldn't help noticing that my father had served for years in
• 66:00 - 66:30 the state legislature elected each time without opposition innocent of the adjustments my teachers thought essential to the development of good citizenship gem educated on a half decimal half duns cap basis seemed to function effectively alone or in a group but gem was a poor example no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books as for me I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time Magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home but as I
• 66:30 - 67:00 inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the makome County School System I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something out of what I knew not yet I did not believe that 12 years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me as the year passed released from school 30 minutes before Jem who had to stay until 3:00 I ran by the Radley place as fast as I could not stopping
• 67:00 - 67:30 until I reached the safety of our front porch one afternoon as I raced by something caught my eye and caught it in such a way that I took a deep breath a long look around and went back two Live Oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot their Roots reached out into the side road and made it bumpy something about one of the trees attracted my attention some tin foil was sticking in a knot hole just above my eye level winking at me in the afternoon sun I stood on
• 67:30 - 68:00 tiptoe hastily looked around once more reached into the hole and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers my first impulse was to get it into my mouth as quickly as possible but I remembered where I was I ran home and on our front porch I examined my loot the gum looked fresh I sniffed it and it smelled all right I licked it and waited for a while when I did not die I crammed it into my mouth Wrigley's double mint when Jem came home he asked me where I
• 68:00 - 68:30 got such a wad I told him I found Ito not eat things you find Scout this wasn't on the ground it was in a tree Jem growled well it was I said it was sticking in that tree Yonder the one coming from school spit it out right now I spat it out the Tang was fading anyway I have been chewing it all afternoon and I am not dead yet not even sick gem stamped his foot don't you know you're not supposed to even touch the trees over there you will get killed if you do
• 68:30 - 69:00 you touched the house once that was different you go gargle right now you hear me ain't neither it will take the taste out of my mouth you do not and I will tell caleria on you rather than risk a tangle with calpernia I did as gem told me for some reason my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship Cal pera's tyranny unfairness and meddling in my business had faded to Gentle grumblings
• 69:00 - 69:30 of General disapproval on my part I went to much trouble sometimes not to provoke her summer was on the way Gem and I awaited it with impatience summer was our best season it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eat it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape but most of all summer was Dill the authorities released us early the last day of school and Jim and I walked home together
• 69:30 - 70:00 reckon old Dill will be coming home tomorrow I said probably day after said Jem Mississippi turns them loose a day later as we came to the Live Oaks at the radly place I raised my finger to point for the h hundredth time to the knot hole where I had found the chewing gum trying to make gem believe I had found it there and found myself pointing at another piece of tin foil I see it Scout I see it Jem looked around reached up and gingerly pocketed a tiny shiny
• 70:00 - 70:30 package we ran home and on the front porch we looked at a small box patchworked with bits of tin foil collected from chewing gum wrappers it was the kind of box wedding rings came in purple velvet with a minute catch gem flicked open the tiny catch inside were two scrubbed and Polished pennies one on top of the other Jem examined them Indian Heads he said 196 and Scout one of them is 1900 these are real old 1900
• 70:30 - 71:00 I echoed say hush a minute I am thinking Jem you reckon that is somebody's hiding place no don't anybody much but US pass by there unless it is some grown persons grown folks do not have hiding places you reckon we ought to keep them gem I do not know what we could do Scout who would we give them back to I know for a fact don't anybody go by there Cecil goes by the back street and all the way around by town to get home Cil Jacobs
• 71:00 - 71:30 who lived at the far end of our street next door to the post office walked a total of one mile per school day to avoid the Radley place and old Mrs grth Henry Lafayette Duos Mrs Dubose lived two doors up the street from us neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs R Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived Jem would not go by her place without attacus beside him what you reckon we ought to do gem finders were Keepers unless title was proven
• 71:30 - 72:00 plucking an occasional chamellia getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss mty Atkinson's cow on a summer day helping ourselves to someone's scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture but money was different tell you what said Jem we will keep them till school starts then go around and ask everybody if they are theirs they are some bus Childs maybe he was too taken up with getting out of school today and forgot them these are somebody's I know that see how they have
• 72:00 - 72:30 been slicked up they have been saved yeah but why should somebody want to put away chewing gum like that you know it does not last I do not know Scout but these are important to somebody how is that gem well Indian Heads well they come from the Indians they are real strong magic they make you have good luck not like fried chicken when you are not looking for it but things like long life and good health and passing six weeks tests these are real valuable to
• 72:30 - 73:00 somebody I am going to put them in my trunk before Jem went to his room he looked for a long time at the Radley place he seemed to be thinking again 2 Days Later Dill arrived in a blaze of glory he had ridden the Train by himself from Meridian to makome Junction a courtesy title makome Junction was in Abbott County where he had been met by Miss Rachel in May one taxi he had eaten dinner in the diner he had seen two twins hitch together get off the train
• 73:00 - 73:30 in Bay Street Lewis and stuck to his story regardless of threats he had discarded the Abominable blue shorts that were buttoned to his shirts and wore real short pants with a belt he was somewhat heavier No taller and said he had seen his father Dill's father was taller than ours he had a black beard pointed and was president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad I helped the engineer for a while said Dill yawning in a pigs
• 73:30 - 74:00 ear you did Dill hush said Jem what will we play today Tom and Sam and Dick said Dill let us go in the front yard Dill wanted the Rover boys because there were three respectable Parts he was clearly tired of being our character man I'm tired of those I said I was tired of playing Tom Rover who suddenly lost his memory in the middle of a picture show and was out of the gripped until the end when he was found in Alaska make us up one gem I said I am tired of making them
• 74:00 - 74:30 up our first days of freedom and we were tired I wondered what the summer would bring we had strolled to the front yard where Dill stood looking down the street at the dreary face of the Radley place I smell death he said I do I mean it he said when I told him to shut up you mean when somebody is dying you can smell it no I mean I can smell smell somebody and tell if they're going to die an old lady taught me how Dill leaned over and
• 74:30 - 75:00 sniffed me Jean louiz Finch you are going to die in 3 days Dill if you do not hush I will knock you biged I mean it now yall hush growled Jim you act like you believe in hot steams you act like you do not I said what is a hot steam asked Dill haven't you ever walked along a Lonesome Road at night and passed by a hot place gem asked Dill a hot steam is somebody who cannot get to heaven just wallows around on Lonesome roads and if you walk through him when
• 75:00 - 75:30 you die you will be one too and you will go around at night sucking people's breath how can you keep from passing through one you cannot said gem sometimes they stretch all the way across the road but if you have to go through one you say angel bright life and death get off the road don't suck my breath that keeps them from wrapping around you don't you believe a word he says Dill I said calper says that is talk Jem scowled Darkly at me but
• 75:30 - 76:00 said well are we going to play anything or not letun roll in the tire I suggested Jem sighed you know I am too big you can push I ran to the backyard and pulled an old car tire from under the house I slapped it up to the front yard I am first I said Dill said he ought to be first he just got here gem arbitrated awarded me first push with an extra time for dill and I folded myself inside the tire until it happened I did
• 76:00 - 76:30 not realize that gem was offended by my contradicting him on hot steams and that he was patiently awaiting an opportunity to reward me he did by pushing the tire down the sidewalk with all the force in his body ground sky and houses melted into a mad pallet my ears throbbed I was suffocating I could not put out my hands to stop they were wedged between my chest and knees I could only hope that Jem would outrun the tire and me or that I would be
• 76:30 - 77:00 stopped by a bump in the sidewalk I heard him behind me chasing and shouting the tire bumped on gravel skeered across the road crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement dizzy and nauseated I lay on the cement and shook my head still pounded my ears to silence and heard Jem's voice Scout get away from there come on I raised my head and stared at the rad plac steps in front of me come on Scout do not just lie there
• 77:00 - 77:30 Jem was screaming get up can't you I got to my feet trembling as I thought get the tire Jem hollered bring it with you ain't you got any sense at all when I was able to navigate I ran back to them as fast as my shaking knees would carry me why didn't you bring it Jem yelled why don't you get it I screamed Jem was silent go on it is not far inside the gate why you even touched the house once remember Jem looked at me furiously could not decline ran down the sidewalk
• 77:30 - 78:00 treaded water at the gate then dashed in and retrieved the tire see there Jem was scowling triumphantly nothing to it I swear Scout sometimes you act so much like a girl it is mortifying there was more to it than he knew but I decided not to tell him calper appeared in the front door and yelled lemonade time you all get in out of that hot sun before you fry alive lemonade in the middle of the morning was a summertime ritual
• 78:00 - 78:30 calpernia set a pitcher and three glasses on the porch then went about her business being out of Gem's good graces did not worry me especially lemonade would restore his Good Humor Jem gulped down his second glassful and slapped his chest I know what we are going to play he announced something new something different what asked Dill bu Radley Jem's head at times was transparent he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radley's
• 78:30 - 79:00 in any shape or form to contrast his own Fearless heroism with my cowardice Bradley how question mark asked Dill period Jim said Scout you can be misses Radley I declare if I will I do not think Dash smatter question mark said Dill still scared he can get out at night when we are all asleep I said Jem said Scout how is he going to know what we are doing besides I do not think he is still there he died years ago and they stuffed
• 79:00 - 79:30 him up the chimney Dill said Jem you and I can play and Scout can watch if she is scared I was fairly sure bu Radley was inside that house but I could not prove it and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in hot steams phenomena I was immune to in the daytime gem parcel out our roles I was Mrs Radley and all I had to do was come out and sweep the porch Dill was old mister he walked up and down the
• 79:30 - 80:00 sidewalk and coughed when Jem spoke to him gem naturally was buo he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time as the summer progressed so did our game we polished and perfected it added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play upon which we rang changes every day Dill was a villain's villain he could get into any character part assigned to him and appear tall if height was part of the devilry required he was as good
• 80:00 - 80:30 as his worst performance his worst performance was Gothic I reluctantly played assorted ladies who entered the script I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem's assurances that bu Radley was dead and nothing would get me with him and calpernia there in the daytime and attacus home at night gem was a born hero it was a Melancholy little drama woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighborhood Legend Mrs
• 80:30 - 81:00 Radley had been beautiful until she married Mister Radley and lost all her money she also lost most of her teeth her hair and her right forefinger Dill's contribution buo bid it off one night when he could not find any cats and squirrels to eat she sat in the living room and cried most of the time while boo slowly whittel away all the furniture in the house the three of us were the boys who got into trouble I was the probate judge
• 81:00 - 81:30 for a change Dill LED Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps poking him with the brush broom gem would reappear as needed in the shapes of the sheriff assorted towns folk and Miss Stephanie Crawford who had more to say about the Radley than anybody in makome when it was time to play Boo's big scene Jem would sneak into the house steal the scissors from the sewing machine machine drawer when ceria's back was turned then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers
• 81:30 - 82:00 Dill would walk by cough at Jem and Gem would fake a plunge into Dill's thigh from Where I Stood it looked real when Mister Nathan Radley passed us on his daily trip to town we would stand still and Silent until he was out of sight then wonder what he would do to us if he suspected our activities halted when any of the neighbors appeared and once I saw Miss modak staring across the street at us her hedge clippers poised in midair one day we were so busily playing
• 82:00 - 82:30 chapter 25 book two of One Man's family we did not see attakus standing on the sidewalk looking at us slapping a rolled magazine against his knee the sun said 12:00 noon what are you all playing he asked nothing said Jem jemk evasion told me our game was a secret so I kept quiet what are you doing with those scissors then why are you tearing up that that newspaper if it is today's I will tan you nothing nothing what said attakus
• 82:30 - 83:00 nothing sir give me those scissors attakus said they are no things to play with does this by any chance have anything to do with the Radley no sir said Jem reing I hope it doesn't he said shortly and went inside the house Jem shut up he is gone in the living room he can hear us in there safely in the yard Dill asked Jem if we could play anymore I don't know attakus did not say we could not Jem I said I think attakus knows it anyway no he does not if he did
• 83:00 - 83:30 he would say he did I was not so sure but gem told me I was being a girl that girls always imagine things that is why other people hated them so and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with all right you just keep it up then I said you will find out atticus's arrival was the second reason I wanted to quit the game the first reason happened the day I rolled into the Radley front yard through all the head
• 83:30 - 84:00 shaking quelling of nausea and Gem yelling I had heard another sound so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk someone inside the house was laughing chapter 5 my nagging got the better of gem eventually as I knew it would and to my relief we slowed down the game for a while he still maintained however that attakus hadn't said we couldn't therefore we could and if
• 84:00 - 84:30 attakus ever said we couldn't gem had thought of a way around it he would simply change the names of the characters and then we couldn't be accused of playing anything Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action Dill was becoming something of a trial anyway following gem about he had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him then he promptly forgot about it he staked me out marked as his property said I was the only girl he would ever love then he neglected me I beat him up twice but it
• 84:30 - 85:00 did no good he only grew closer to Jem they spent days together in the tree house plotting and planning calling me only when they needed a third party but I kept aloof from their more fool hearty schemes for a while and on pain of being called a girl I spent most of the remaining Twilights that summer sitting with Miss motty Atkinson on her front porch Gem and I had always enjoyed the Free Run of Miss M's yard if we kept out of her aelas but our contact with her was
• 85:00 - 85:30 not clearly defined until jeem and Dill excluded me from their plans she was only another lady in the neighborhood but a relatively benign presence our tacit treaty with Miss motty was that we could play on her lawn eat her scuppernongs if we did not jump on the arbor and explore her vast back lot terms so generous we seldom spoke to her her so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with
• 85:30 - 86:00 their behavior Miss motty hated her house time spent indoors was time wasted she was a widow a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat in men's coveralls but after her 5:00 bath she would appear on the porch and Rain Over the street in maerial Beauty she loved everything that grew in God's Earth even the weeds with one exception if she found a blade of nutgrass in her yard it was like the
• 86:00 - 86:30 Second Battle of the marn she swooped down upon it with a tin tub and subjected it to blasts from beneath with a poisonous substance she said was so powerful it would kill us all if we did not stand out of the way why can't you just pull it up I asked after witnessing a prolonged campaign against a blade not 3 in high pull it up child pull it up she picked up the limp Sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk microscopic grains oozed out why one sprig of
• 86:30 - 87:00 nutgrass can ruin a whole yard look here when it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over makome County Miss M's face likened such An Occurrence unto an old testament pestilence Her speech was crisp for a makome county inhabitant she called us by all our names and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eye teeth when I admired them and hoped I would have some eventually she said look here with a click of her tongue She
• 87:00 - 87:30 thrust out her Bridge work a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship Miss mot's benevolence extended to Jem and Dill whenever they paused in their Pursuits we reaped the benefits of a talent Miss motty had hitherto kept hidden from us she made the best cakes in the neighborhood when she was admitted into our confidence every time she baked she made a big cake in three little ones and she would call across the street gem
• 87:30 - 88:00 Finch Scout Finch Charles Baker Harris come here our promptness was always rewarded in summertime Twilights are long and peaceful often as not miss mty and I would sit silently on her porch watching the sky go from yellow to Pink as the sun went down watching flights of Martins sweep low over the neighborhood and disappear behind the schoolhouse rooftops Miss motty I said one evening do you think bu Radley is still alive his name is Arthur and he is alive she said she
• 88:00 - 88:30 was rocking slowly in her big Oak chair do you smell my mimosa it is like Angels breath this evening yesam how do you know know what child that b Dash Mr period Arthur's still alive what a morbid question but I suppose it is a morbid subject I know he is alive John Louise because I have not seen him carried out yet maybe he died and they stuffed him up the chimney where did you get such a notion that is what gem said
• 88:30 - 89:00 he thought they did s he gets more like Jack Finch every day Miss motty had known Uncle Jack Finch atticus's Brother since they were children nearly the same age they had grown up together at Finch's Landing Miss motty was the daughter of a neighboring landowner doctor Frank Buford doctor buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground so he stayed poor Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for
• 89:00 - 89:30 digging to his window boxes in Nashville and stayed Rich we saw Uncle Jack every Christmas and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss motty to come marry him Miss motty would yell back call a little louder Jack Finch and they will hear you at the post office I have not heard you yet Jem and I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady's hand in marriage but then Uncle Jack was rather strange he said he was trying to
• 89:30 - 90:00 get Miss M's goat that he had been trying unsuccessfully for 40 years that he was the last person in the world Miss motty would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing and the best defense to her was Spirited offense all of which we understood clearly Arthur Radley just stays in the house that is all said Miss motty would not you stay in the house if you did not want to come out yes but I would want to come out why
• 90:00 - 90:30 doesn't he miss M's eyes narrowed you know that story as well as I do I never heard why though nobody ever told me why Miss motty settled her Bridge work you know old mister Radley was a foot-washing Baptist that is what you are is it not my Shell's not that hard child I am just a Baptist do not you all believe in foot washing we do at home in the bathtub but we can't have communion with you all apparently deciding that it
• 90:30 - 91:00 was easier to Define primitive baptistry than closed communion Miss motty said foot washers believe anything that is pleasure is a sin did you know some of them came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell your flowers too yes ma'am they would burn right with me they thought I spent too much time in God's outdoor and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible my confidence in Pulpit gospel lessened at the vision of
• 91:00 - 91:30 Miss mty stewing forever in various Protestant Hells true enough she had an acid tongue in her head and she did not go about the neighborhood doing good as did Miss Stephanie Crawford but while no one with a grain of sense trusted Miss Stephanie jeem and I had considerable faith in Miss motti she had never told on us had never played cat and mouse with us she was not at all interested in our private lives she was our friend how
• 91:30 - 92:00 so reasonable a creature could live in Peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible that ain't right miss motty you are the best lady I know Miss motty grinned thank you ma'am thing is foot washers think women are a Sin by definition they take the Bible literally you know is that why Mister Arthur stays in the house to keep away from women I have no idea it does not make sense to me looks like if Mr Arthur was hankering
• 92:00 - 92:30 after Heaven he had come out on the porch at least attakus says God's loving folks like you love yourself Miss motty stopped rocking and her voice hardened you are too young to understand it she said but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of O of your father I was shocked adus does not drink whiskey said he never drunk A Drop in his life no yes he did he said he drank some one time and did not like it Miss motty
• 92:30 - 93:00 laughed was not talking about your father she said what I meant was if attakus Finch drank until he was drunk he would not be as hard as some men are at their best there are just some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next World they have never learned to live in this one and you can look down the street and see the results do you think they are true all those things they say about be Mr Arthur what things I told her that is 34s colored
• 93:00 - 93:30 folks and 1/4 Stephanie Crawford said Miss motty grimly Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her I said what did you do Stephanie move over in the bed and make room for him that shut her up a while I was sure it did Miss mot's voice was enough to shut anybody up no child she said that is a sad house I remember Arthur Radley
• 93:30 - 94:00 when he was a boy he always spoke nicely to me no matter what folks said he did spoke as nicely as he knew how you reckon he is crazy Miss motty shook her head if he is not he should be by now the things that happen to people we never really know what happens in houses behind closed doors What secrets Dash attacus do not ever do anything to gem me in the house that he do not do in the yard I said feeling it my duty to defend my parent gracious child I was raveling
• 94:00 - 94:30 a thread was not even thinking about your father but now that I am I will say this attacus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets how would you like some fresh pound cake to take home I liked it very much next morning when I awakened I found Jem and Dill in the backyard deep in conversation when I joined them as usual they said go away will not this yard is as much mine as it is yours gem Finch I
• 94:30 - 95:00 got just as much right to play in it as you have dill and Jem emerged from a brief huddle if you stay you have got to do what we tell you Dill warned wheel I said who is so high and mighty all of a sudden if you do not say you will do what we tell you we are not going to tell you anything Dill continued you act like you grew 10 in in the night all right what is is it Jem said placidly we going to give a note to BU Radley just how I was trying to fight down the automatic Terror rising in me
• 95:00 - 95:30 it was all right for Miss motty to talk she was old and snug on her porch it was different for us gem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole and stick it through the shutters if anyone came along Dill would ring the bell Dill raised his right hand in it was my mother's silver Dinner Bell I am going around to the side of the house said gem we looked yesterday from across the street and there is a shutter
• 95:30 - 96:00 loose think maybe I can make it stick on the window sill at least gem now you are in it and you cannot get out of it you will just stay in it Miss pris okay okay but I do not want to watch Jem somebody was Dash yes you will you will watch the back end of the lot and Dill is going to watch the front of the house and up the street and if anybody comes comes he will ring the bell that clear all right then what did you write him Dill said we are asking
• 96:00 - 96:30 him real politely to come out sometimes and tell us what he does in there we said we would not hurt him and we would buy him an ice cream you all have gone crazy he will kill us Dill said it is my idea I figure if he would come out and sit a spell with us he might feel better how do you know he does not feel good well how would you feel if you had been shut up for a hundred years with nothing but cats to eat I bet he's got a beard down to here
• 96:30 - 97:00 like your daddy's he ain't got a beard he dashed Dill stopped as if trying to remember uhhuh caught you I said you said before you were off the train good your daddy had a black beard if it is all the same to you he shaved it off last summer yeah and I have got the letter to prove it he sent me $2 too keep on I re he even sent you a Mounted Police uniform that never showed up did it you just keep on telling them son
• 97:00 - 97:30 Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard among other things he had been up in a mail plane 17 times he had been to Nova Scotia he had seen an elephant and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him his sword you all hush said Jim he scuttled beneath the house and came out with a yellow bamboo pole reckon this is long enough enough to reach from the sidewalk anybody who is brave enough to go up and touch the house had not ought to use a fishing pole I
• 97:30 - 98:00 said why do not you just knock the front door down this is different said Jem how many times do I have to tell you that Dill took a piece of paper from his pocket and gave it to Jem the three of us walked cautiously toward the old house Dill remained at the light pole on the front corner of the lot and Jem and I edged down the sidewalk parallel to the side of the house I walked Beyond Gem and stood where I could see around the curve all clear I said not a soul in
• 98:00 - 98:30 sight Jem looked up the sidewalk to Dill who nodded Jem attached the note to the end of the fishing pole let the pole out across the yard and pushed it toward the window he had selected the pole lacked several inches of being long enough and Gem leaned over as far as he could I watched him making jabbing motions for so long I abandoned my post and went to him cannot get it off the pole he muttered or if I got it off I cannot make it stay gone back down the street
• 98:30 - 99:00 Scout I returned and gazed around the curve at the empty road occasionally I looked back at Jem who was patiently trying to place the note on the window sill it would flutter to the ground and Jem would jab it up until I thought if bu Radley ever received it he would not be able to read it I was looking down the street Street when the dinner bell rang shoulder up I reeled around to face bu Radley in his bloody fangs instead I
• 99:00 - 99:30 saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in atticus's face gem looked so awful I didn't have the heart to tell him I told him so he trudged along dragging the pole behind him on the sidewalk attakus said stop ringing that Bell Dill grabbed The Clapper in the silence that followed I wished he had start ringing it again attakus pushed his hat to the back of his head and put his hands on his hips Jem he said what were you doing nothing sir I do not want
• 99:30 - 100:00 any of that tell me I was we were just trying to give something to mister Radley what were you trying to give him just a letter let me see it Jem held out a filthy piece of paper attakus took it and tried to read it why do you want mister Radley to come out Dill said we thought he might enjoy us and dried up when attakus looked at himon he said to Jem I'm going to tell you something and tell you one time stop tormenting that
• 100:00 - 100:30 man that goes for the other two of you what Mister Radley did was his own business if he wanted to come out he would if he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children which was a mild term for the likes of us how would we like it if attacus barged in on us with without knocking when we were in our rooms at night we were in effect doing the same thing to mister Bradley what
• 100:30 - 101:00 Mister Bradley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him furthermore had it never occurred to us that the Civil way to communicate with another being was by the front door instead of a side window lastly we were to stay away from that house until we were invited there we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street or in this town we weren't making fun of him we weren't laughing at him said Jem we were just so
• 101:00 - 101:30 that was what you were doing was not it making fun of him no said attakus putting his life's history on display for the edification of the neighborhood gem seemed to swell a little I did not say we were doing that I did not say it attakus grinned dryly you just told me he said you stop this ense right now every one of you Jem gaped at him you want to be a lawyer do not you our father's mouth was
• 101:30 - 102:00 suspiciously firm as if he were trying to hold it in line gem decided there was no point in quibbling and was silent when attakus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning gem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record he waited a respectful distance from the front steps watched attakus leave the house and walk toward town when attakus was out of earshot Jem yelled after him I thought I wanted to
• 102:00 - 102:30 be a lawyer but I am not so sure now chapter 6 yes said our father when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by Miss Rachel's fish pool with dill as this was his last night in makome tell him so long for me and we will see him next summer we leaped over over the low wall that separated Miss Rachel's yard from our driveway Jem whistled Bob White and Dill answered in the darkness
• 102:30 - 103:00 not a breath blowing said Jem look a Yonder he pointed to the east a gigantic moon was Rising behind Miss M's pecan trees that makes it seem hotter he said cross in it tonight question mark asked Dill comma not looking up period he was constructing a cigarette from newspaper and string no just the lady don't light that thing D you will stink up this whole end of town there was a lady in the moon in makome she sat at a dresser
• 103:00 - 103:30 combing her hair we are going to miss you boy I said reckon we better watch for Mister Avery Mister Avery barded across the street from Mrs Henry Lafayette de's House besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday Mr Avery sat on the porch every night until 9:00 and sneezed one evening we we were privileged to witness a performance by him which seemed to have been his positively last for he never did it again so long as we watched Jem
• 103:30 - 104:00 and I were leaving Miss Rachel's front steps one night when Dill stopped us golly look at Yonder he pointed across the street at first we saw nothing but a kudzu covered front porch but a closer inspection revealed an ark of water descending from the leaves and splashing in the yellow circle of the streetlight some 10 ft from sourcer Earth it seemed to us Jem said mister Avery misfigured Dill said he must drink a gallon a day and
• 104:00 - 104:30 the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again as I was untalented in this area Dill stretched yawned and said all together too casually I know what letun go for a walk he sounded fishy to me nobody in makome just went for a walk where to Dill Dill jerked his head in a southerly Direction Jem said okay when I protested he said sweetly you do not have to come along Angel may you do not have to go
• 104:30 - 105:00 remember gem was not one to dwell on past defeats it seemed the only message he got from attakus was insight into the art of cross-examination scout we are not going to do anything we're just going to the street light and back we strolled silently down the sidewalk listening to porch swings creaking with the weight of the neighborhood Hood listening to the soft night murmurs of the grown people on our street occasionally we heard Miss Stephanie Crawford laugh well said Dill
• 105:00 - 105:30 okay said Jem why don't you go on home Scout what are you going to do dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at bu Radley and if I did not want to go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut that was all but what in the same Holy Hill did you wait until tonight because nobody could see them at night because attacus would be so deep in a book he would not hear the
• 105:30 - 106:00 kingdom coming because if bu Radley killed them they would miss school instead of vacation and because it was easier to see inside a dark house in the dark than in the daytime did I understand Jem Scout I am telling you for the last time shut your trap or go home I declare to the Lord You Are getting more like a girl every day with that I had no option but to join them we thought it was better to go under the
• 106:00 - 106:30 Highwire fence at the rear of the Radley lot we stood less chance of being seen the fence enclosed a large garden and a narrow wooden ouse gem held up the bottom wire and motioned Dill under it I followed and held up the wire for Jem it was a tight squeeze for him don't make a sound he whispered don't get in a row of collards whatever you do they will wake the Dead with this thought in mind I made perhaps one step per minute I moved
• 106:30 - 107:00 faster when I saw gem far ahead beckoning in the Moonlight we came to the gate that divided the garden from the backyard gem touched it the gate squeaked spit on it whispered Dill you have got us in a box gem I muttered we cannot get out of here so easy as spit on it Scout we spat ourselves dry and Jem opened the gate slowly lifting it aside and resting it on the fence we were in the backyard the back of the Radley house was less inviting than the
• 107:00 - 107:30 front a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house there were two doors and two dark Windows between the doors instead of a column a rough 2x4 supported one end of the roof an old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch above it a hat rck mirror caught the moon and Shone eerily RR said Jim softly lifting his foot smatter chickens he breathed that we would be obliged to dodge the Unseen from all directions was confirmed when Dill ahead of us spelled
• 107:30 - 108:00 godod in a whisper we crept to the side of the house around to the window with the hanging shutter the sill was several inches taller than gem give you a hand up he muttered to Dill wait though Jem grabbed his left wrist in my right wrist I grabbed my left wrist and Jem's right wrist we crouched and Dill sat on our saddle we raised him and he caught the window sill hurry gem whisp we can't last much longer Dill punched my shoulder and we
• 108:00 - 108:30 lowered him to the ground what did you see nothing curtains there is a little teeny light way off somewhere though let us get away from here breathed Jem letun go round and Back Again sh he warned me as I was about to protest let us try the back window Dill no I said Dill stopped and let Jem go ahead when Jem put his foot on the bottom step the step squeaked he stood still then tried his weight by degrees the step was silent
• 108:30 - 109:00 gem skipped two steps put his foot on the porch heaved himself to it and teetered a long moment he regained his balance and dropped to his knees he crawled to the window raised his head and looked in then I saw the shadow it was the shadow of a man with a hat on at first I thought it was a tree but there was no wind blowing and tree trunks never walked the back porch was bathed in Moonlight and the shadow crisp as toast moved across the porch toward gem
• 109:00 - 109:30 Dill saw it next he put his hands to his face when it crossed gem Jem saw it he put his arms over his head and went rigid the shadow stopped about a foot Beyond gem its arm came out from its side dropped and was still then it turned and moved back across gem walked along the porch and off the side of the house returning as it had come gem leaped off the porch and galloped toward us he flung open the gate danced dill and me through and shoot us between
• 109:30 - 110:00 two rows of swishing collards halfway through the collards I tripped as I tripped the Roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood dill and Jem dived Beside Me jemk Breath came in sobs fence by the schoolyard hurry Scout Jem held the bottom wire dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the schoolyard solitary Oak where when we sensed that Jem was not with us we ran back and found him struggling in the fence kicking his pants off to get
• 110:00 - 110:30 loose he ran to the Oak Tree in his shorts safely behind it we gave way to numbness but jemk mind was racing we have got to get home they will miss us we ran across the schoolyard crawled under the fence to deer's pasture behind our house climbed our back fence and were at the back steps before gem would let us pause to rest respiration normal the three of us strolled as casually as we could to the front yard we looked down the street and saw a circle of
• 110:30 - 111:00 Neighbors at the Radley front gate we better go down there said Jem they will think it is funny if we do not show up mister Nathan Radley was standing inside his gate a shotgun broken across his arm attakus was standing beside miss mty and miss Stephanie Crawford Miss Rachel and Mister Avery were nearby none of them saw us come up we eased in beside Miss mty who looked around where were you all didn't you hear the commotion what
• 111:00 - 111:30 happened asked Jim Mister Radley shot at a negro in his collared patch oh did he hit him no said Miss Stephanie shot in the air scared and pale though says if anybody sees a white person around that is the one says he has got the other Barrel waiting for the next sound he hears in that patch and next time he will not Aim High be it dog or gem Finch ma'am asked gem attakus spoke where your pants son pants sir pants it
• 111:30 - 112:00 was no use in his shorts before God and everybody I sighed mister Finch in the glare from the streetlight I could see Dill hatching one his eyes widened his fat cherub face grew rounder what is it Dill asked attakus ah Dash I won them from him he said vaguely W them how Dill's hand sought the back of his head he brought it forward and across his forehead we were playing strip poker up yonder by the fish poool he said Gemini
• 112:00 - 112:30 relaxed the neighbors seemed satisfied they all stiffened but what was strip poker we had no chance to find out Miss Rachel went off like the town fire siren Duo Jesus Dill Harris gambling by my fish poool I will strip poker you sir attakus saved Dill from immediate dismemberment just a minute Miss Rachel he said I have never heard of them doing that before were you all playing cards gem fielded Dill's fly with his eyes
• 112:30 - 113:00 shut no sir just with matches I admired my brother matches were dangerous but cards were fatal gem Scout said attakus I do not want to hear of Poker in any form again go by Dills and get your pants Jim settle it yourselves don't worry Dill said Jem as we trotted up the sidewalk she ain't going to get you he will talk her out of it that was fast thinking son listen you hear we stopped and heard atticus's voice not serious
• 113:00 - 113:30 they all go through it Miss Rachel Dill was comforted but Jem and I were not there was the problem of Jem showing up some pants in the morning I would give you some of mine said Dill as we came to Miss Rachel's steps Jem said he could not get in them but thanks anyway we said goodbye and Dill went inside the house he evidently remembered he was engaged to me for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of gem y'all right here he bowed after us had Jem's
• 113:30 - 114:00 pants been safely on him we would not have slept much anyway every night sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified threefold every scratch of feet on gravel was bu Radley seeking Revenge every passing negro laughing in the night was bu Radley loose and after us insects splashing against the screen were bu Radley's insane fing fingers picking the wire to Pieces the China Berry trees were malignant hovering alive I lingered between sleep and
• 114:00 - 114:30 wakefulness until I heard gem murmur sleep little three eyes are you crazy as atticus's lights out in the waning Moonlight I saw Jem swing his feet to the floor I'm going after them he said I sat upright you can't I won't let you he was struggling into his shirt I got to you do and I will wake up attakus you do and I will kill you I pulled him down beside me on the Cod I tried to reason with him Mister Nathan is going to find
• 114:30 - 115:00 them in the morning gem he knows you lost them when he shows them to attakus it will be pretty bad that is all there is to it going back to bed that is what I know said gem that is why I'm going after them I began to feel sick going back to that place by himself I remembered Miss Stephanie Mr n had the other Barrel waiting for the next sound he heard be it dog gem knew that better than I I was desperate look it is
• 115:00 - 115:30 not worth it Jem a licking hurts but it does not last you will get your head shot off Jem please he blew out his breath Patiently I at it's like this scout he muttered adus ain't ever whipped me since I can remember I want to keep it that way this was a thought it seemed that attakus threatened us every other day you mean he has never caught you at anything maybe so but I just want to keep it that way Scout we should not have done that tonight Scout
• 115:30 - 116:00 it was then I suppose that Gem and I first began to part company sometimes I did not understand him but my periods of bewilderment were short-lived this was beyond me please I pleaded can't you just think about it for a minute by yourself in that place shut up it is not like he would never speak to you again or something I'm going to wake him up Jem I swear I am Jem grabbed my pajama collar and wrenched it tight then I am
• 116:00 - 116:30 going with you dash I choked no you are not you will just make noise it was no use I unlatched the back door and held it while he crept down the steps it must have been 2:00 the moon was setting and the lattice work Shadows were Fading Into fuzzy nothingness Gem's white shirt tail dipped and bobbed like a small goat Dancing Away to escape the coming morning a faint Breeze stirred and cooled the sweat running down my sides he went the backway through deer's
• 116:30 - 117:00 pasture across the schoolyard and around to the fence I thought at least that was the way he was headed it would take longer so it was not time to worry yet I waited until it was time to worry and listened for Mister Bradley's shotgun then I thought I heard The Back Fence squeak it was wishful thinking then I heard attakus cough I held my breath sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading he
• 117:00 - 117:30 said he often woke up during the night checked on us and read himself back to sleep I waited for his light to go on straining my eyes to see it flood the hall it stayed off and I breathed again the nightcrawlers had retired but ripe China berries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred and the Darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs there he was returning to me his white shirt bobbed Over The Back Fence and slowly grew larger he came up the
• 117:30 - 118:00 back steps latched the door behind him and sat on his cot wordlessly he held up his pants he lay down and for a while I heard his cot trembling soon he was still I did not hear him stir again chapter 7 gem stayed Moody and Silent for a week as attakus had once advised me to do I tried to climb into Gem's skin and walk
• 118:00 - 118:30 around in it if I had gone alone to the Radley place at 2: in the morning my funeral would have been held the next afternoon so I left gem alone and tried not to bother him school started the second grade was as bad as the first only worse they still flashed cards at you and would not let you read or write Miss Caroline's progress next door could could be estimated by the frequency of laughter however the usual crew had flunked the first grade again and were helpful in keeping
• 118:30 - 119:00 order the only thing good about the second grade was that this year I had to stay as late as Gem and we usually walked home together at 3:00 one afternoon when we were crossing the schoolyard toward home Jem suddenly said there is something I did not tell you as this was his first complete sentence in several days I encouraged him about what about that night you have never told me anything about that night I said gem waved my words away as if
• 119:00 - 119:30 Fanning gats he was silent for a while then he said when I went back for my breaches they were all in a tangle when I was getting out of them I couldn't get them loose when I went back Jem took a deep breath when I went back they were folded across the fence like they were expecting me across and something else Jem's voice was flat show you when we get home they had been sewed up not like a lady sewed them like something I would try to do all crooked it is almost like
• 119:30 - 120:00 Dash somebody knew you were coming back for them gem shuddered like somebody was reading my mind like somebody could tell what I was going to do cannot anybody tell what I'm going to do lest they know me can they Scout Jem's question was an appeal I reassured him can can not anybody tell what you are going to do L they live in the house with you and even I cannot tell sometimes we were walking past our tree in its knole rested a ball
• 120:00 - 120:30 of gray twine don't take it Jem I said this is somebody's hiding place I do not think so Scout yes it is somebody like Walter Cunningham comes down here every recess and hides his things and we come along and take them away from him listen let us leave it and wait a couple of days if it ain't gone then we'll take it okay okay you might be right said Jem it must be some little kid's place hides his things from the bigger folks you
• 120:30 - 121:00 know it is only when school is in that we have found things yeah I said but we never go by here in the summertime we went home next morning the twine was where we had left it when it was still there on the third day gem pocketed it from then on WE considered everything we found in the knole our property the second grade was Grim but Jem assured me that the older I got the better school would be that he started off the same way and it was not until
• 121:00 - 121:30 one reached the sixth grade that one learned anything of value the sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning he went through a brief Egyptian period that baffled me he tried to walk flat a great deal sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him putting one foot behind the other he declared Egyptians walked that way I said if they did I did not see how they got anything done but gem said they accomplished more than the Americans
• 121:30 - 122:00 ever did they invented toilet paper and Perpetual embalming and asked where would we be today if they had not attakus told me to delete the adjectives and I would have the facts there are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama summer drifts into Autumn and Autumn is sometimes never followed by winter but turns to a days old spring that melts into summer again that fall was a long one hardly cool enough for a light jacket Jem and I were trotting in our
• 122:00 - 122:30 orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot hole stopped us again something white was inside this time gem let me do the honors I pulled out two small images carved in soap one was the figure of a boy the other wore a crude dress before I remembered that there was no such thing as who doing I shrieked and threw them down Jem snatched them up what is the matter with you he yelled he rubbed the figures free of red dust these are good he said
• 122:30 - 123:00 I have never seen any of these good he held them down to me they were almost perfect Miniatures of two children The Boy hat on shorts and a shock of soapy hair fell to his eyebrows I looked up at gem a point of straight brown hair kicked downwards from his part I had never noticed it before gem looked from the Girl doll to me the Girl doll wore bangs so did I these are us he said who did them you reckon who do we know around here who whittel he asked mister
• 123:00 - 123:30 Avery Mister Avery just does like this I mean carves Mister Avery averaged a stick of stove wood per week he honed it down to a toothpick and chewed it there is Old Miss Stephanie Crawford's sweetheart I said he carves all right but he lives down the country when would he ever pay any attention to us maybe he sits on the porch and looks at us instead of Miss Stephanie if I was him I would gem stared at me so long I asked
• 123:30 - 124:00 what was the matter but got nothing Scout for an answer when we went home gem put the dolls in his trunk less than 2 weeks later we found a whole package of chewing gum which we enjoyed the fact that everything on the Radley place was poison having slipped Gem's memory the following week the KN hole yielded a tarnished metal gem showed it to attakus who said it was a spelling medal that before we were born the makome county schools had spelling
• 124:00 - 124:30 contests and awarded medals to the winners attakus said someone must have lost it and had we asked around gem camel kicked me when I tried to say where we had found it Jem asked attakus if he remembered anybody who ever won one and attakus said no our biggest prize appeared 4 days later it was a pocket watch that wouldn't run on a chain with an aluminum knife you reckon it is white gold gem do not know I will show it to attakus attakus said it would
• 124:30 - 125:00 probably be worth $10 knife chain and all if it were new did you swap with somebody at school he asked oh no sir Jem pulled out his grandfather's watch that adus let him carry once a week if gem were careful with it on the days he carried the Watch GEM walked on eggs attacus if it is all right with you I would rather have this one instead maybe I can fix it when the new wore off his grandfather's watch and carrying it
• 125:00 - 125:30 became a day's burdensome task gem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every 5 minutes he did a fair job only one spring and two tiny pieces left over but the watch would not run oh he sighed it will never go Scout question mark huh you reckon we ought to write a letter to whoever is leaving us these things that would be right nice Jem we can thank them what is wrong Jem was holding his ears shaking his head from side to side I do not get it I just do not get
• 125:30 - 126:00 it I do not know why Scout he looked toward the living room I have got a good mind to tell attakus no I reckon not I will tell him for you no do not do that scout scout he had been on the verge of telling me something all evening his face would brighten and he would lean toward me then then he would change his mind he changed it again oh nothing here let us write a letter I pushed a tablet and pencil under his nose okay Dear
• 126:00 - 126:30 Mister how do you know it is a man I bet it is Miss motty been betting that for a long time RR Miss motty can't chew gum Dash gem broke into a grin you know she can talk really pretty sometimes one time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks that chewing gum cleaved to her pallet and rendered her speechless said Jem carefully does not that sound nice yeah she can say nice things sometimes she wouldn't have a
• 126:30 - 127:00 watch and chain anyway Dear Sir said Jem we appreciate the no we appreciate everything which you have put into the tree for us yours very truly Jeremy attakus Finch he won't know who you are if you sign it like that gem Jem erased his name and wrote Jem Finch I signed genan Lise Finch Scout beneath it gem put the note in an envelope next morning on the way to school he ran ahead of me and stopped at the tree gem was facing me when he looked up and I saw him go
• 127:00 - 127:30 stark white Scout I ran to him someone had filled our knot hole with cement don't you cry now Scout don't cry now don't you worry Dash he muttered at me all the way to school when we went home for dinner Jem bolted his food ran to the porch and stood on the steps I followed him has not passed by yet he said next day gem repeated his vigil and was rewarded he do Mister Nathan he said morning gem Scout said Mr Radley as he
• 127:30 - 128:00 went by Mis Radley said Jem Mis Radley turned around Mis Radley ah did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder yes he said I filled it up why did you do it sir trees dying you plug them with cement when they are sick you ought to know that gem gem said nothing more about it until late afternoon when we passed our tree he gave it a meditative Pat on its cement and remained deep in thought he seemed to be
• 128:00 - 128:30 working himself into a bad humor so I kept my distance as usual we met adus coming home from work that evening when we were at our steps gem said attacus Look Down Yonder at that tree please sir what tree son the one on the corner of the Radley lot coming from school yes is that tree D why no son I do not think so look at the leaves they are all green and full no brown patches anywhere it is not even
• 128:30 - 129:00 sick that tree is as healthy as you are gem Wier Nathan Radley said it was dying well maybe it is I am sure Mister Radley knows more about his trees than we do attakus left us on the porch gem leaned on a pillar rubbing his shoulders against it do you itch gem I asked as politely as I could he did not answer come on in Jem I said after a while he stood there until Nightfall and I waited for him when we went in the house I saw
• 129:00 - 129:30 he had been crying his face was dirty in the right places but I thought it odd that I had not heard him chapter 8 for reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in makome County Autumn turned to Winter that year we had two weeks of the coldest weather since one 1,885 atus said mister Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents smoked
• 129:30 - 130:00 cigarettes and made war on each other the seasons would change Gem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberration of nature thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves old Mrs Radley died that winter but her death caused hardly a ripple the neighborhood seldom saw her except when she watered her canas Gem and I decided that Buu had got her at last but when attakus returned from the
• 130:00 - 130:30 Radley house he said she died of natural causes to our disappointment ask him Jem whispered you ask him you are the oldest that is why you ought to ask him attakus I said did you see Mister Arthur attakus looked sternly around his newspaper at me I did not gem restrained me from further questions he said attakus was still touchy about us and the Radley and it would not do to push him any gem had a notion that attakus thought our activities that night last summer were
• 130:30 - 131:00 not solely confined to strip poker Jem had no firm basis for his ideas he said it was merely a twitch next morning I awoke looked out the window and nearly died of fright my screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half shaven the world is ending attacus please do something Dash exclamation mark quotation mark I dragged him to the window and pointed no it is not he said it is snowing gem asked atus would it
• 131:00 - 131:30 keep up gem had never seen snow either but he knew what it was attakus said he did not know any more about snow than gem did I think though if it is watery like that it will turn to rain the telephone rang and attakus left The Breakfast Table to answer it that was Ula may he said when he returned I quote as it has not snowed in makome County since 1885 there will be no school today Ula May was mak's leading telephone operator
• 131:30 - 132:00 she was entrusted with issuing public announcements wedding invitations setting off the fire siren and giving first aid instructions when Dr Reynolds was away when attakus finally called us to order and baade us look at our plates instead of out the windows Jem asked how do you make a snowman I haven't the slightest idea idea said attakus I do not want you all to be disappointed but I doubt if there will be enough snow for a snowball even caleria came in and said she
• 132:00 - 132:30 thought it was sticking when we ran to the backyard it was covered with a feeble layer of soggy snow we shouldn't walk about in it said gem look every step you take is wasting it I looked back at my mushy Footprints gem said if we waited until it snowed some more we could scrape it all up for a Snowman I stuck out my tongue and caught a fat flake it burned gem no it is not it is so cold it burns now do not eat it Scout
• 132:30 - 133:00 you are wasting it let it come down but I want to walk in it I know what we can go walk over at Miss M's gem hopped across the front yard I followed in his tracks when we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss M's Mr Avery accosted us he had a pink face and a big stomach below his belt see what you've done he said has not snowed in makome since aomax it is bad children like you that make the seasons change I wondered if
• 133:00 - 133:30 Mister Avery knew how hopefully we had watched last summer for him to repeat his performance and reflected that if this was our reward there was something to say for sin I did not wonder where Mister Avery gathered his meteorological statistics they came straight from the Rosetta Stone gem Finch you gem Finch miss mot's calling you gem you all stay in the middle of the yard there is some Thrift buried under the snow near the porch don't step on it yesim called Jem
• 133:30 - 134:00 it is beautiful isn't it Miss mty beautiful my hindfoot If it freezes tonight it will carry off all my aelas Miss mot's old sun hat glistened with snow crystals she was bending over some small bushes wrapping them in burlap bags gem asked her what she was doing that for keep them warm she said how can flowers keep warm they do not circulate I cannot answer that question gem Finch
• 134:00 - 134:30 all I know is if it freezes tonight these plants will freeze so you cover them up is that clear yesam Miss motty what sir could Scout and I borrow some of your snow Heaven's alive take it all there is an old Peach basket under the house haul it off in that Miss M's eyes narrowed gem Finch what are you going to do with my snow you will see said Jem and we transferred as much snow as we could from Miss M's yard to ours a slushy operation what are we going to do
• 134:30 - 135:00 gem I asked you will see he said now get the basket and haul all the snow you can rake up from the backyard to the front walk back in your tracks though he cautioned are we going to have a snow baby gem no a real snowman got to work hard now gem ran to the backyard produced The Garden ho and began digging quickly behind the wood pile placing any worms he found to one side he went in the house returned with the laundry hamper filled it with Earth and carried
• 135:00 - 135:30 it to the front yard when we had five baskets of Earth and two baskets of snow gem said we were ready to begin don't you think this is kind of a mess I asked looks messy now but it will not later he said Jem scooped up an armful of dirt patted it into a mound on which he added another load and another until he had constructed a torso Jem I am not ever heard of a snowman I said he won't be black long he grunted Jem procured some Peach
• 135:30 - 136:00 Tree switches from the backyard plated them and bent them into bones to be covered with dirt he looks like Stephanie Crawford with her hands on her hips I said fat in the middle and little bitty arms I will make them bigger gem sosed water over the Mudman and added more dirt he looked thoughtfully at it for a moment then he molded a big stomach below the figure's waistline Jem glanced at me his eyes twinkling Mister Avery's
• 136:00 - 136:30 sort of shaped like a snowman isn't he Jem scooped up some snow and began Plastering it on he permitted me to cover only the back saving the public parts for himself gradually Mister Avery turned white using bits of wood for eyes nose mouth and buttons gem succeeded in making Mis Avery looks cross a stick of stove wood completed the picture Jem stepped back and viewed his creation it is lovely gem I said looks almost like he would talk to you it is is it not he
• 136:30 - 137:00 said shily we could not wait for attacus to come home for dinner but called and said we had a big surprise for him he seemed surprised when he saw most of the backyard in the front yard but he said we had done a Jim Dandy job I didn't know how you were going to do it he said to Jim but from now on I will never worry about what will become of you son you will always have an idea Jem's ears rened from atticus's compliment but he looked up sharply when
• 137:00 - 137:30 he saw attakus stepping back attakus squinted at the Snowman a while he grinned then laughed son I cannot tell what you're going to be an engineer a lawyer or a Portrait Painter you have perpetrated a near liel here in the front yard we've got to disguise this fellow attakus suggests that jeem hone down his creation's front a little swap a broom for the stove wood and put an apron on him Jem explained that if he did the Snowman would become muddy and cease to
• 137:30 - 138:00 be a snowman I do not care what you do so long as you do something said attacus you can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors ain't a caricature said gem it looks just like him Mr Avery might not think so I know what exclamation mark said gem period he raced red across the street disappeared into Miss mot's backyard and returned triumphant he stuck her sun hat on the snowman's head and jammed her hedge clippers into the crook of his arm
• 138:00 - 138:30 attakus said that would be fine Miss motty opened her front door and came out on the porch she looked across the street at us suddenly she grinned Jem Finch she called you devil bring me back my hat sir Jem looked up at attakus who shook his head she is just fuss he said she is really impressed with your
• 138:30 - 139:00 accomplishments attakus strolled over to miss mot's sidewalk where they engaged in an arm-waving conversation the only phrase of which I caught was erected an absolute morphodite in that yard attacus you will never raise them the snow stopped in the afternoon the temperature dropped and by Nightfall Mis her Aver's direst predictions came true calpernia kept every fireplace in the house blazing but we were cold when attakus came home that evening he said we were
• 139:00 - 139:30 in for it and asked calpernia if she wanted to stay with us for the night calpernia glanced up at the high ceilings and long windows and said she thought she would be warmer at her house attacus drove her home in the car before I went to sleep attakus put more coal on the fire in my room he said the thermometer registered 16 that it was the coldest night in his memory and that our snowman outside was frozen solid minutes later it seemed I was awakened
• 139:30 - 140:00 by someone shaking me atticus's Overcoat was spread across me is it morning already baby get up attakus was holding out my bath robe and coat put your robe on first he said Jem was standing beside attakus groggy and tousled he was holding his Overcoat closed at the neck his other hand was jammed into his pocket he looked strangely overweight hurry Han said attakus here are your shoes and socks stupidly I put them on is it morning no it is a little after 1
• 140:00 - 140:30 hurry now that something was wrong finally got through to me what is the matter by then he did not have to tell me just as the birds know where to go when it rains I knew when there was trouble in our street soft taid likee sounds and muffled scurrying sounds filled me with helpless dread who is it Miss M Han said attakus gently at the front door we saw fire spewing from Miss M's dining room
• 140:30 - 141:00 windows as if to confirm what we saw the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there screaming it is gone is it not moaned gem I expect so said attakus now listen both of you go down and stand in front of the Radley place keep out of the way do you hear see which way the wind wind is blowing oh said Jem attacus reckon we ought to start moving the furniture out not yet son do as I tell you run now take care of scout you he don't let her
• 141:00 - 141:30 out of your sight with a push attakus started us toward the Radley front gate we stood watching the street fill with men and cars while fire silently devoured Miss mot's house why do not they hurry why do not they hurry muttered Jem we saw why the old fire truck killed by the cold was being pushed from town by a crowd of men when the men attached its hose to a hydrant the hose burst and water shot up tinkling down on the pavement oh Lord
• 141:30 - 142:00 Jem Jem put his arm around me hush Scout he said it ain't time to worry yet I will let you know when the men of makome in all degrees of dress and undress took furniture from Miss M's house to a yard across the street I saw attacus carrying Miss M's heavy Oak rocking chair and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most sometimes we heard shouts then Mister Avery's face appeared in an
• 142:00 - 142:30 upstairs window he pushed a mattress out the window into the street and threw down Furniture until men shouted come down from there dick the stairs are going get out of there mister Avery Mister Aver began climbing through the window Scout he is stuck breathed Jem oh God Mr Avery was wedged tightly I buried my head under jemk arm and didn't look again until Jem cried he's got loose Scout he is all right I looked up to see
• 142:30 - 143:00 Mister Avery crossed the upstairs porch he swung his legs over the railing and was sliding down a pillar when he slipped he fell yelled and hit Miss mot's Shrubbery suddenly I noticed that the men were backing away from Miss mot's house moving down the street toward us they were no longer caring ing Furniture the fire was well into the second floor and had eaten its way to the roof window frames were black against a vivid orange Center gem it
• 143:00 - 143:30 looks like a pumpkin Dash Scout look exclamation mark smoke was rolling off our house and Miss Rachel's house like fog off a riverbank and men were pulling hoses toward them behind us the fire truck from abbottsville screamed around the curve and stopped in front of our house that book I said what said Jem that Tom Swift book it is not mine it is Dill's don't worry Scout it isn't time to worry yet said Jem he pointed look Yonder in a group of neighbors attakus
• 143:30 - 144:00 was standing with his hands in his Overcoat Pockets he might have been watching a football game Miss motty was beside him see there he's not worried yet said Jem why isn't he on top of one of the houses he is too old he would break his neck you think we ought to make him get our stuff out let's not pester him he'll know when it's time said Jem the abbottsville fire trck began pumping water on our house a man
• 144:00 - 144:30 on the roof pointed to places that needed it most I watched our absolute morphodite go black and crumble Miss M's sun hat settled on top of the Heap I could not see her hedge clippers in the heat between our house Miss Rachel's and Miss M's the men had long ago shed coats and bathrobes they worked in pajam tops and night shirts stuffed into their pants but I became aware that I was slowly freezing Where I Stood gem tried to keep me warm but his arm was not
• 144:30 - 145:00 enough I pulled free of it and clutched my shoulders by dancing a little I could feel my feet another fir trck appeared and stopped in front of Miss Stephanie Crawford's there was no hydrant for another hose and the men tried to soak her house with hand extinguishers Miss M's Tin Roof qu W the Flames roaring the house collapsed fire gushed everywhere followed by a flurry of blankets from Men on top of the adjacent houses beating out Sparks and
• 145:00 - 145:30 burning chunks of wood it was Dawn before the men began to leave first one by one then in groups they pushed the makome fire truck back to town the abbottsville truck Departed the third one remained we found out the next day it had come from Clark's Ferry 60 M away Gemini slid across the Street Miss motty was staring at the smoking black hole in her yard and attakus shook his head to tell us she did not want to talk he led us home holding on to our shoulders to
• 145:30 - 146:00 cross the icy Street he said Miss motty would stay with Miss Stephanie for the time being anybody want some hot chocolate he asked I shuddered when attakus started a fire in the kitchen stove as we drank our cocoa I noticed attacus looking at me first with curiosity then with Stern Ness I thought I told you and Gem to stay put he said why we did we stayed then whose blanket is that blanket yes ma'am blanket it
• 146:00 - 146:30 isn't ours I looked down and found myself clutching a brown Woolen blanket I was wearing around my shoulders fashion attacus I do not know sir I I turned to Jem for an answer but gem was even more bewildered than I he said he did not know how it got there we did exactly as attacus had told us we stood down by the Radley gate away from everybody we did not move an inch gem stopped Mister Nathan was at the fire he babbled I saw him I saw him he was
• 146:30 - 147:00 tugging that mattress attakus I swear that is all right son attakus grinned slowly looks like all of makome was out tonight in one way or another Jem there is some wrapping paper in the pantry I think go get it and we will adus no sir Jem seemed to have lost his mind he began pouring out our secrets right and left in total disregard for my safety if not for his own omitting nothing not whole pants and all Mister
• 147:00 - 147:30 Nathan put cement in that tree attacus and he did it to stop us finding things he is crazy I reckon like they say but attacus I swear to God he has not ever harmed us he has not ever hurt us he could have cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to Mend My Pants instead he ain't ever Hur us atus Atta said wo son so gently that I was greatly heartened it was obvious that he had not followed a word Jem said for all attakus said was you are right we would
• 147:30 - 148:00 better keep this and the blanket to ourselves someday maybe Scout can thank him for covering her up thank who I asked bu Radley you were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you my stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when gem held out the blanket and crept toward me he sneaked out of the house turned around sneaked up and went like this attakus said dryo not let this inspire you to further
• 148:00 - 148:30 Glory Jeremy Jem scowled I am not going to do anything to him but I watched the spark of fresh Adventure leave his eyes just think Scout he said if you had just turned around you would have seen him caleria woke us at noon attakus had said we need not go to school that day we would would learn nothing after No Sleep caleria said for us to try and clean up the front yard Miss M's sun hat was suspended in a thin layer of ice like a
• 148:30 - 149:00 fly in Amber and we had to dig under the dirt for her hedge clippers we found her in her backyard gazing at her Frozen charred as alas we are bringing back your things Miss mty said Jem we are awful sorry Miss motty looked around and the shadow of her old grin crossed her face always wanted to smaller house gem Finch gives me more yard just think I will have more room for my aelas now you are not grieving Miss motty I asked surprised attakus said her house was
• 149:00 - 149:30 nearly all she had grieving child why I hated that old cowbarn thought of setting fire to it a hundred times myself except they would lock me up but don't you worry about me Jean louiz Finch there are ways of doing things you do not know about why I will build me a little house and take me a couple of rumors and gracious I will have the finest yard in Alabama those bellingraths will look plain puny when I get started Jem and I looked at each
• 149:30 - 150:00 other how did it catch Miss motty he asked I do not know gem probably the flu in the kitchen I kept a fire in there last night for my potted plants here you had some unexpected company last night Miss Jean Louise how did you know attacus told me on his way to town this morning tell you the truth I would like to have been with you and I would have had sense enough to turn around too Miss motty puzzled me with most of her
• 150:00 - 150:30 possessions gone and her beloved yard of shambles she still took a lively and cordial interest in gems and my Affairs she must have seen my perplexity she said only thing I worried about last night was all the danger and commotion it caused this whole neighborhood could have gone up Mister Avery will be in bed for a week he is right stove up he is too old to do things like that and I told him so soon as I can get my hands clean and when Stephanie Crawford is not
• 150:30 - 151:00 looking I will make him a lane cake that Stephanie has been after my recipe for 30 years and if she thinks I will give it to her just because I am staying with her she has got another thing coming I reflected that if Miss motty broke down and gave it to her Miss Stephanie could not follow it anyway Miss motty had once let me see it among other things the recipe called for one large cup of sugar it was a still day
• 151:00 - 151:30 the air was so cold and clear we heard the courthouse clock Clank Rattle and strain before it struck the hour Miss mot's nose was a color I had never seen before and I inquired about it I have been out here since 6:00 she said she'd be frozen by now she held up her hands a network of tiny lines criss-crossed her Palms brown with dirt and dried blood you have ruined them said Jem why do not you get a colored man there was no note of sacrifice in his voice when he added
• 151:30 - 152:00 or Scout and me we can help you miss motty said thank you sir but you have got a job of your own over there she pointed to our yard you mean the morphodite I asked shoot we can rake him up in a jiffy Miss motty stared down at me her lips moving silently suddenly she put her hands to her head and whooped when we left her she was still chuckling Jem said he did not know what was the matter with her that was just miss
• 152:00 - 152:30 motti chapter nine you can just take that back boy this order given by me to cesil Jacobs was the beginning of a rather thin time for Jem and me my fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly attakus had promised me he would wear me out if ever heard of me fighting anymore I was far too old and too big for such childish things and the sooner I learned to hold in the better off everybody would
• 152:30 - 153:00 be I soon forgot cesil Jacobs made me forget he had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended I denied it but told Jim what did he mean saying that I asked nothing Jem said ask attakus he will tell you do you defend attakus I I asked him that evening of course I do don't say that word scout that is common that is what everybody at school says from now on it will be everybody less one well if you
• 153:00 - 153:30 do not want me to grow up talking that way why do you send me to school my father looked at me mildly Amusement in his eyes despite our compromise my campaign to avoid school had continued in one form or another since my first day's dose of it the beginning of last September had brought on sinking spells dizziness and Mild gastric complaints I went so far as to pay a nickel for the privilege of rubbing my head against the head of Miss Rachel's Cook's son who was
• 153:30 - 154:00 afflicted with a tremendous ringworm it didn't take but I was worrying another bone do all lawyers defend n Negroes attakus of course they do Scout then why did sisil say you defended he made it sound like you were running a still attakus side I am simply defending a negro his name is Tom Robinson he lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump he is a member of calia's church and Cal knows his family well she
• 154:00 - 154:30 says they are clean living folks Scout you aren't old enough to understand some things yet but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man it is a peculiar case it will not come to trial until summer session John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement if you should not be defending him then why are you doing it for a number of reasons said attakus the main one is if I didn't I couldn't hold
• 154:30 - 155:00 up my head in town I couldn't represent this County in the legislature I couldn't even tell you or gem not to do something again you mean if you did not defend that man jeem and I would not have to mind you anymore that is about right why because I could never ask you to mind me again Scout simply by the nature of the work every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally this one is mine I guess you might hear
• 155:00 - 155:30 some ugly talk about it at school but do one thing for me if you will you just hold your head high and keep those fists down no matter what anybody says to you do not you let them get your goat try fighting with your head for a change it is a good one even if it does resist learning adus are we going to win it no honey then why Dash simply because we were licked 100 years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win attakus said you sound like
• 155:30 - 156:00 cousin Ike Finch I said cousin Ike Finch was makome County's so surviving Confederate veteran he wore a general Hood Type beard of which he was inordinately vain at least once a year attakus Gemini called on him and I would have to kiss him it was horrible Gem and I would listen respectfully to attakus and cousin Ike rehash the war tell you attacus cousin Ike would say the Missouri Compromise was what licked us
• 156:00 - 156:30 but if I had to go through it agan I'd walk every step of the way there and every step back just like I did before and furthermore we'd whip him this time now in 1,864 when Stonewall Jackson came around by beg your pardon Young Folks old blue light was in heaven then God rest his saintly brow come here Scout said attakus I crawled into his lap and tucked my head under his chin he put his arms around me and rocked Me Gently it
• 156:30 - 157:00 is different this time he said this time we aren't fighting the Yankees we are fighting our friends but remember this no matter how bitter things get they are still our friends and this is still our home with this in mind I faced cesil Jacobs in the schoolyard next day you are going to take that back boy you got to make me first he yelled my folks said your daddy was a disgrace and that the racial slur ought to hang from the water tank I drew a bead on him
• 157:00 - 157:30 remembered what attakus had said then dropped my fists and walked away Scouts a coward ringing in my ears it was the first time I ever walked away from a fight somehow if I fought sisle I would let attakus down attakus so rarely asked Jim and me to do something for him I could take being being called a coward for him I felt extremely Noble for having remembered and remained Noble for 3 weeks then Christmas came and disaster struck Gemini viewed Christmas with
• 157:30 - 158:00 mixed feelings the good side was the tree and Uncle Jack Finch every Christmas Eve day we met Uncle Jack at makome Junction and he would spend a week with us a flip of the coin revealed the uncompromising lineaments of Aunt Alexandra and Francis I suppose I should in include Uncle Jimmy Aunt Alexandra's husband but as he never spoke a word to me in my life except to say get off the fence once I never saw any reason to take notice of him neither did Aunt Alexandra
• 158:00 - 158:30 long ago in a burst of friendliness Auntie and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry who left home as soon as was humanly possible married and produced Francis Henry and his wife deposited Francis at his grandparents every Christmas then pursued their own pleasures no amount of sighing could induce attacus to let us spend Christmas day at home we went to Finch's Landing every Christmas In My Memory the fact that Auntie was a good cook was some
• 158:30 - 159:00 compensation for being forced to spend a religious holiday with Francis Hancock he was a year older than I and I avoided him on principle he enjoyed everything I disapproved of and disliked my ingenuous diversions an Alexandra was atticus's sister but when Jem told me about changelings and siblings I decided that she had been swapped at Birth that my grandparents had perhaps received a Crawford instead of a finch had I ever harbored the mystical Notions about
• 159:00 - 159:30 mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest throughout my early life she was cold and there when Uncle Jack jumped down from the Train on Christmas Eve day we had to wait for the porter to hand him two long packages Jem and I always thought it funny when Uncle Jack pecked attakus on the cheek they were the only two men we ever saw kiss each other Uncle Jack shook hands with Jem and swung me high but not high enough Uncle
• 159:30 - 160:00 Jack was a head shorter than attakus the baby of the family he was younger than Aunt Alexandra he and Auntie looked alike but Uncle Jack made better use of his face we were never wary of his sharp nose and Chin he was one of the few men of science who never terrified me probably because he never behaved like a doctor whenever he performed a minor service for jeem and me as removing a splinter from a foot he would tell us exactly what he was going to do give us
• 160:00 - 160:30 an estimation of how much it would hurt and explain the use of any tongues he employed one Christmas I lurked in Corners nursing a twisted splinter in my foot permitting no one to come near me when Uncle Jack caught me he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing gown smoking a hookah and delivering 5minute sermons to any passers by who desired spiritual
• 160:30 - 161:00 comfort I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing that was what was known as relativity what is in those packages I asked him pointing to the long thin Parcels the porter had given him none of your business he said Jem said how is Rose Almer Rose Almer was Uncle Jack's cat she was a beautiful yellow female Uncle Jack said she was one of
• 161:00 - 161:30 the few women he could stand permanently he reached into his coat pocket and brought out some snapshots we admired them she is getting fat I said I should think so she eats all the leftover fingers and ears from the hospital a that is a damn story I said I beg your pardon attakus saido not pay any attention to her Jack she is trying you out Cal says she has been cussing fluently for a week now uncle jack raised his eyebrows and
• 161:30 - 162:00 said nothing I was proceeding on the dim Theory aside from the innate attractiveness of such words that if attacus discovered I had picked them up at school he would not make me go but at supper that evening when I asked him to pass the damn ham please Uncle Jack pointed at me see me at afterwards young lady he said when supper was over Uncle Jack went to the living room and sat down he slapped his thighs for me to come sit on his lap I lik to smell him
• 162:00 - 162:30 he was like a bottle of alcohol and something pleasantly sweet he pushed back my bangs and looked at me you are more like attacus than your mother he said you are also growing out of your pants a little I reckon they fit all right you like words like damn in hell now do not you I said I reckoned so well I do not said Uncle Jack not unless there is Extreme provocation connected with them I will be here a week and I do not want to hear any words like that
• 162:30 - 163:00 while I'm here Scout you will get in trouble if you go around saying things like that you want to grow up to be a lady do not you I said not particularly of course you do now let's get to the tree we decorated the tree until bedtime and that night I dreamed of the two long pack Pages for Jem and me next morning Jem and I dived for them they were from attacus who had written Uncle Jack to get them for us and they were what we had asked for don't Point them in the
• 163:00 - 163:30 house said attakus when Jem aimed at a picture on the wall you will have to teach them to shoot said Uncle Jack that is your job said attakus I merely bowed to the inevitable it took atticus' courtroom voice to drag us away from the tree he declined to let us take our air rifles to The Landing I had already begun to think of shooting Francis and said if we made one false move he would take them away from us for good Finch's Landing
• 163:30 - 164:00 consisted of 366 steps down a high Bluff and ending in a jetty farther Downstream Beyond The Bluff were traces of an old Cotton Landing where Finch Negroes had loaded Bales and produce unloaded blocks of ice flour and sugar farm equipment and feminine apparel a two rut Road ran from the Riverside and vanished among dark trees at the end of the road was a two-storied white house with porches circling it upstairs and downstairs in his old age
• 164:00 - 164:30 our ancestor Simon Finch had built it to please his nagging wife but with the porches all resemblance to ordinary houses of its era ended the internal Arrangements of the finch house were indicative of Simon's guilelessness and the absolute trust with which he regarded his offspring there were six bedrooms upstairs four for the eight female children one for welcome Finch the soul Son and one for visiting relatives simple enough but the daughter's rooms could be reached only
• 164:30 - 165:00 by one staircase welcome's room and the guest room only by another the daughter's staircase was in the ground floor bedroom of their parents so Simon always knew the hours of his daughters nocturnal comings and goings there was a kitchen separate from the rest of the house tack packed onto it by a wooden catwalk in the backyard was a rusty Bell on a pole used to summon field hands or as a distress signal a Widow's walk was on the roof but no widows walked there from it Simon
• 165:00 - 165:30 oversaw his overseer watched the Riverbats and gazed into the lives of surrounding landholders there went with the house the usual legend about the Yankees one finch female recently engaged dawned her complete tro to save it from Raiders in the neighborhood she became stuck in the door to the daughter's staircase but was doused with water and finally pushed through when we arrived at the Landing Aunt Alexandra kissed Uncle Jack Francis
• 165:30 - 166:00 kissed Uncle Jack Uncle Jimmy shook hands silently with Uncle Jack Jem and I gave our presents to Francis who gave us a present Jem felt his age and gravitated to the adults leaving me to entertain our cousin Francis was eight and slicked back his hair what did you get for Christmas I asked politely just what I asked for he said Francis had requested a pair of knee pants a red leather book sack five shirts and an untied bow tie that is nice I lied Jem and me got air
• 166:00 - 166:30 rifles and Gem got a chemistry set a toy one I reckon no a real one he's going to make me some invisible ink and I'm going to write to Dill in it Francis asked what was the use of that well cannot you just see his face when he gets a letter from me with nothing in it it will drive him nuts talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean he was the most boring child I ever met as he lived in
• 166:30 - 167:00 Mobile he could not inform on me to school authorities but he managed to tell everything he knew to Aunt Alexandra who in turn unburdened herself to attakus who either forgot it or gave me hell which ever struck his fancy but the only time I ever heard attakus speak sharply to anyone was when I once heard him say sister I do the best I can with them it had something to do with my going around in overalls Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject
• 167:00 - 167:30 of my attire I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breaches when I said I could do nothing in a dress she said I was not supposed to be doing things that required pants Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves tea sets and wearing the ad pearl necklace she gave me when I was born furthermore I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well but Auntie said that one
• 167:30 - 168:00 had to behave like a Sunbeam that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year she hurt my feelings and set my teeth permanently on edge but when I asked attakus about it he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about mys business he did not mind me much the way I was at Christmas dinner I sat at the little table in the dining room Jem and Francis sat with the adults at the dining table Auntie had continued to
• 168:00 - 168:30 isolate me long after Jem and Francis graduated to the big table I often wondered what she thought I would do get up and throw something I sometimes thought of asking her if she would let me sit at the big table with the rest of them just once I would prove to her how civiliz ized I could be after all I ate at home every day with no major mishaps when I begged attakus to use his influence he said he had none we were guests and we sat where she told us to
• 168:30 - 169:00 sit he also said Aunt Alexandra did not understand girls much she had never had one but her cooking made up for everything three kinds of meat summer vegetables from her pantry shelves Peach pickles two kinds of cake and Ambrosia constituted a modest Christmas dinner afterwards the adults made for the living room and sat around in a dazed condition gem lay on the floor and I went to the backyard put on your coat said attakus dreamily so I didn't hear
• 169:00 - 169:30 him Francis sat beside me on the back steps that was the best yet I said Grandma's a wonderful cook said Francis she is going to teach me how boys do not cook I giggled at the thought of gem in an apron grandma says all men should learn to cook that men ought to be careful with their wives and wait on them when they do not feel good said my cousin I do not want Dill waiting on me I said I would rather wait on him Dill
• 169:30 - 170:00 yeah don't say anything about it yet but we are going to get married as soon as we are big enough he asked me last summer Francis hooted what is the matter with him I asked ain't anything the matter with him you mean that little runt grandma says stays with Miss Rachel every summer that is exactly who I mean I know all about him said Francis what about him grandma says he has not got a home Dash has two he lives in Meridian he just
• 170:00 - 170:30 gets passed around from relative to relative and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer Francis that is not so Francis grinned at me you are Mighty dumb sometimes John Louise guess you do not know any better though what do you mean if Uncle attakus lets you run around with stray dogs that is his own business like Grandma says so it is not your fault I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle attakus is a lover besides but I'm here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the
• 170:30 - 171:00 family Francis what the hell do you mean just what I said Grandma says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild but now he's turned out a lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Mako aan he is ruining the family that's what he's doing Francis Rose and sprinted down the catwalk to the old kitchen at a safe distance he called he is nothing but a lover he is not exclamation mark I roared period I do not know what you
• 171:00 - 171:30 are talking about but you better cut it out this red hot minute I leaped off the steps and ran down the catwalk it was easy to coll her Francis I said take it back quick Francis jerked loose and sped into the old kitchen lover he yelled when stalking ones prey it is best to take one's time say nothing and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge Francis appeared at the kitchen door you still mad John Louise
• 171:30 - 172:00 he asked tentatively nothing to speak of I said Francis came out on the catwalk you're going to take it back Francis Francis shot back into the kitchen so I retired to the steps I could wait patiently I had sat there perhaps 5 minutes when I heard Aunt Alexandra speak where is Francis he is out yonder in the kitchen he knows he is not supposed to play in there Francis came to the door and yelled grandma she has got me in here and she will not let me out what is
• 172:00 - 172:30 all this John Louise I looked up at Anne Alexandra I have not got him in there Auntie I'm not holding him yes she is shouted Francis she won't let me out have you all been fussing John Louise got mad at me grandma called Francis Francis come out of there Jean Louise if I hear another word out of you I will tell your father did I hear you say hell a while ago Nai I thought I did I would better not hear it again Aunt Alexandra
• 172:30 - 173:00 was a back porch listener the moment she was out of sight Francis came out head up and grinning don't you fool with me he said he jumped into the yard and kept his distance kicking toughs of grass turning around occasionally to smile at me jeem appeared on on the porch looked at us and went away Francis climbed the mimosa tree came down put his hands in his pockets and strolled around the yard ha I asked him who he thought he was
• 173:00 - 173:30 Uncle Jack question mark Francis said he reckoned I got told for me to just sit there and leave him alone I am not bothering you I said Francis looked at me carefully concluded that I had been sufficiently subdued and cred softly lover this time I split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth my left impaired I sailed in with my right but not for long Uncle Jack pinned my arms to my sides and said stand still Aunt Alexandra ministered to Francis
• 173:30 - 174:00 wiping his tears away with her handkerchief rubbing his hair patting his cheek attakus Jem and Uncle Jimmy had come to the back porch when Francis started yelling who started this said Uncle Jack Francis and I pointed at each other Grandma he bald she called me a lady and jumped on me is that true Scout said Uncle Jack I reckon so when Uncle Jack looked down at me his features were like Aunt Alexandra's you
• 174:00 - 174:30 know I told you you would get in trouble if you used words like that I told you didn't I yes sir but Dash well you are in trouble now stay there I was debating whether to stand there or run and carried in indecision a moment too long I turned to flee but Uncle Jack was Qui ER I found myself suddenly looking at a tiny ant struggling with a breadcrumb in the grass I will never speak to you again as long as I live I hate you and despise you and hope you die tomorrow a
• 174:30 - 175:00 statement that seemed to encourage Uncle Jack more than anything I ran to attacus for Comfort but he said I had it coming and it was high time we went home I climbed into the back seat of the car without saying goodbye to anyone and at home I ran to my room and slammed the door gem tried to say something nice but I would not let him when I surveyed the damage there were only seven or eight red marks and I was reflecting upon relativity when someone knocked on the
• 175:00 - 175:30 door I asked who it was Uncle Jack answered go Uncle Jack said if I talked like that he would lick me again so I was quiet when he entered the room I retreated to a corner and turned my back on him Scout he said do you still hate me go on please sir why I didn't think you would hold it against me he said I am disappointed in you you had that coming and you know it did not either honey you cannot go around calling
• 175:30 - 176:00 people Dash you are not fair I said you are not fair Uncle Jack's eyebrows went up not fair how not you are real nice Uncle Jack and I reckon I love you even after what you did but you do not understand children much Uncle Jack put his hands on his hips and looked down at me and why do I not understand children Miss Jean Louise such conduct as yours required little understanding it was obstreperous disorderly and abusive you
• 176:00 - 176:30 are going to give me a chance to tell you I do not mean to sass you I'm just trying to tell you Uncle Jack sat down on the bed his eyebrows came together and he peered up at me from under them proceed he said I took a deep breath well in the first place you you never stopped to give me a chance to tell you my side of it you just lit right into me when Gem and I fuss attacus does not ever just listen to Jem's side of it he hears mine too and in the second place
• 176:30 - 177:00 you told me never to use words like that except in extreme provocation and Francis provoked me enough to knock his block off Uncle Jack scratched his head what was your side of it Scout Francis called attakus something and I wasn't about to take it off him what did Francis call him a lover I am not very sure what it means but the way Francis said it tell you one thing right now uncle jack I will be I swear before God if I will sit there and let him say
• 177:00 - 177:30 something about attacus he called atus that yes sir he did and a lot more said attakus would be the ruination of the family and he let jeem and me run wild from the look on Uncle Jack's face I thought I was in for it again when he said we will see about this I knew Francis was in for it I have a good mind to go out there tonight please sir Just Let It Go please I have no intention of letting it go he said Alexandra should
• 177:30 - 178:00 know about this the idea of wait until I get my hands on that boy Uncle Jack please promise me something please sir promise you won't tell attacus about this he he asked me one time not to let anything I heard about him make me mad and I'd rather him think we were fighting about something else instead please promise but I do not like Francis getting away with something like that he did not you reckon you could tie up my hand it is still bleeding some of course
• 178:00 - 178:30 I will baby I know of no hand I would be more delighted to tie up will you come this way Uncle Jack gallantly bowed me to the bathroom while he cleaned and bandaged my Knuckles he entertained me with a tale about a funny nearsighted Old Gentleman who had a cat named hodj and who counted all the cracks in the sidewalk when he went to town there now he said you will have a very unladylike scar on your wedding ring finger thank
• 178:30 - 179:00 you sir Uncle Jack ma'am what is a lady Uncle Jack plunged into another long tale about an old prime minister who sat in the House of Commons and blew feathers in the air and tried to keep them there when all about him men were losing their heads I guess he was trying to answer my question but he made no sense whatsoever later when I was supposed to be in bed I went down the hall for a drink of water and heard attakus and Uncle Jack in the living
• 179:00 - 179:30 room I shall never marry attakus why I might have children attakus said you have a lot to learn Jack I know your daughter gave me my first lessons this afternoon she said I did not understand children much and told me why she was quite right ad she told me how I should have treated her oh dear I so sorry I romped on her attakus chuckled she earned it so do not feel too remorseful I waited on tenor hooks for Uncle Jack
• 179:30 - 180:00 to tell attakus my side of it but he did not he simply murmured her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination but she does not know the meaning of half she says she asked me what a lady was did you tell her no I told her about Lord Melbourne Jack when a child asks you something answer him for goodness sake but do not make a production of it children are children but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults an evasion simply muddles
• 180:00 - 180:30 them no my father mused you had the right answer this afternoon but the wrong reasons bad language is a stage all children go through and it dies with time when they learn they are not attracting attention with it hot-headedness isn't Scouts got to learn to keep her head and learn soon with what's in store for her these next few months she is coming along though gem is getting older and she follows his example a good bit now all she needs is
• 180:30 - 181:00 assistance sometimes attacus you have never laid a hand on her I admit that so far I've been able to get by with threats Jack she Minds me as well as she can does not come up to scratch half the time but she tries that is not the answer said Uncle Jack no the answer is she knows I know she tries that is what makes the difference what bothers me is that she and Jem will have to absorb some ugly things pretty soon I'm not worried about gem keeping his head but
• 181:00 - 181:30 Scout just as soon jump on someone as look at him if her Pride's at stake I waited for Uncle Jack to break his promise he still didn't attakus how bad is this going to be you haven't had too much chance to discuss it it couldn't be worse Jack the only thing we have got is a black man's word against the uleles the evidence boils down to you did I didn't the jury couldn't possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson's word
• 181:30 - 182:00 against the uls are you acquainted with the uls Uncle Jack said yes he remembered them he described them to attakus but attakus said you are a generation off the present ones are the same though what are you going to do then before I am through I intend to are the jury a bit I think we will have a reasonable chance on appeal though I really can't tell at this stage Jack you know I had hoped to get through life without a case of this kind but John Taylor pointed at me and said you are it
• 182:00 - 182:30 let this cup pass from you eh right but do you think I could face my children otherwise you know what's going to happen as well as I do Jack and I hope and pray I can get gem and Scout through it without bitterness and most of all without catching mak's usual disease why reasonable people go Stark raving mad when anything involving a negro comes up is something I do not pretend to understand I just hope that Gem and
• 182:30 - 183:00 Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town I hope they trust me enough John Louise my scalp jumped I stuck my head around the corner sir go to bed I scurried to my room and went to bed Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down but I never figured out how attacus knew I was listening and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he
• 183:00 - 183:30 said thank you for choosing Audi book club please subscribe to the channel and share this video if you like content like this enjoy To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee chapter 10 attakus was feeble he was nearly 50 when Gemini asked him why he was so old he said he got started late which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness he was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries and there was nothing gem
• 183:30 - 184:00 or I could say about him when our classmates said my father Jem was football crazy attakus was never too tired to play keep away but when Jem wanted to tackle him attakus would say I am too old for that son Our Father didn't do anything he worked in an office not in a drugstore attakus did not drive a dump truck for the county he was not the sheriff he did not farm work in a garage or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone besides
• 184:00 - 184:30 that he wore glasses he was nearly blind in his left eye and said left eyes were the tribal curse of the finches whenever he wanted to see something well he turned his head and looked from his right eye he did not do the thing our schoolmates fathers did he never went hunting he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke he sat in the living room and read with these attributes however he would not remain as inconspicuous as
• 184:30 - 185:00 we wished him to that year the school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom Robinson none of which was complimentary after my bout with cesil Jacobs when I committed myself to a policy of cowardice word got around that Scout Finch wouldn't fight anymore her dad wouldn't let her this was not entirely correct I would not fight publicly for attakus but the family was Private ground I would fight anyone from a third cousin upwards tooth and nail Francis
• 185:00 - 185:30 Hancock for example knew that when he gave us our air rifles attakus would not teach us to shoot Uncle Jack instructed us in the rudiments thereof he said attakus was not interested in guns attakus said to Jem one day I would rather you shot at tin hands in the backyard but I know you will go after Birds shoot all the Blue Jays you want if you can hit them but remember it is a sin to Kill a Mocking Bird that was the only time I ever heard attacus say it
• 185:30 - 186:00 was a sin to do something and I asked miss m about it your father's right she said mocking birds do not do one thing but make music for us to enjoy they do not eat up people's Gardens do not nest in corn cribs they do not do one thing but sing their hearts out for us that is why it is a sin to Kill a Mockingbird miss motty this is an old neighborhood is it not it has been here longer than the town gnome I mean the folks on our street are all old Gem and I are the
• 186:00 - 186:30 only children around here Mrs dubos is close to 100 and Miss Rachel's old and so are you and attakus I do not call 50 very old said miss mty tartly not being wheeled around yet am I neither is your father but I must say Providence was kind enough to burn down that old melum of mine I'm too old to keep it up maybe you are right John Louise this is a settled neighborhood youve never been around Young Folks much have you yes
• 186:30 - 187:00 ma'am at school I mean young grown-ups you are lucky you know you and Jem have the benefit of your father's age if your father was 30 you would find life quite different I sure would attakus can't do anything you would be surprised said Miss motty there is life in him yet what can he do well he can make somebody's will so airtight that can't anybody meddle with
• 187:00 - 187:30 it shoot well did you know he is the best Checker player in this town why down at the Landing when we were coming up attakus Finch could beat everybody on both sides of the river good Lord Miss mty Gem and I beat him all the time it is about time time you found out it is because he lets you did you know he can play a Jew's harp this modest accomplishment served to make me even more ashamed of him well she said well what Miss motty well
• 187:30 - 188:00 nothing nothing it seems with all that you would be proud of him cannot everybody play a Jew's harp now keep out of the way of the Carpenters you had better go home I will be in my aelas and cannot watch you plank might hit you I went to the backyard and found gem plugging away at a tin can which seemed stupid with all the Blue Jays around I returned to the front yard and busied myself for 2 hours erecting a complicated breast works at the side of
• 188:00 - 188:30 the porch consisting of a tire an orange crate the laundry hamper the porch chairs and a small United States flag gem gave me from a popcorn box when attakus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street what are you shooting at Miss mot's rear end attakus turned and saw my generous Target bending over her bushes he pushed his hat to the back of his head and crossed the street motty he called I
• 188:30 - 189:00 thought I would better warn you you are in considerable Peril Miss motty straightened up and looked toward me she said attacus you are a devil from Hell when attakus returned he told me to break Camp don't you ever let me catch you pointing that gun at anybody again he said I wished my father was a devil from Hell I sounded out calper on the subject Mis finch why he can do lots of things like what I asked caleria scratched her head well I do not rightly
• 189:00 - 189:30 know she said gem underlined it when he asked attakus if he was going out for the methodists and attakus said he would break his neck if he did he was just too old for that sort of thing the methodists were trying to pay off their Church mortgage and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football everybody in Town's father was playing it seemed except attakus gem said he did not even want to go but he was unable to resist football in any
• 189:30 - 190:00 form and he stood gloomily on the sidelines with attakus and me watching cesil jacobs's father make touchdowns for the Baptists one Saturday Gem and I decided to go exploring with our air rifles to see if we could find a rabbit or a squirrel we had gone about 500 yard beyond the Radley place when I noticed Jem squinting at something down the street he had turned his head to one side and was looking out of the corners of his eyes what are you looking at that
• 190:00 - 190:30 old dog Down Yonder he said that is old Tim Johnson is it not Tim Johnson was the property of Mister Harry Johnson who drove the mobile bus and lived on the southern Edge of Town Tim was a liver-colored bird dog the pet of make home what is he doing I do not know Scout we better go home ah gem it is February I do not care I'm going to tell Cal we raced home and ran to the kitchen Cal said Jem can you come down the
• 190:30 - 191:00 sidewalk a minute what for Gem I can't come down the sidewalk every time you want me there is something wrong with an old dog Down Yonder cernia side I can't wrap up any dog's foot now there is some gauze in the bathroom go get it and do it yourself Jem shook his head he is sick Cal something is wrong with him what is he doing trying to catch his tail no he is doing like this Jem gulped like a goldfish hunched his shoulders
• 191:00 - 191:30 and twitched his torso he is going like that only not like he means to are you telling me a story gem Finch ceria's voice hardened no Cal I swear I am not was he running no he's just moseying along so slow you can hardly tell it he is coming this way caleria rinsed her hands and followed Jem into the yard I do not see any dog she said she followed us beyond the Radley place and looked where Jem pointed Tim Johnson was not much more
• 191:30 - 192:00 than a speck in the distance but he was closer to us he walked erratically as if his right legs were shorter than his left legs he reminded me of a car stuck in a sand bed he is gone lopsided said Jim caleria stared then grabbed Us by the shoulders and and ran us home she shut the wood door behind us went to the telephone and shouted gimme Mister Finch's office Mister Finch exclamation she shouted this is Cal I swear to God
• 192:00 - 192:30 there is a Mad Dog down the street a piece he's coming this way yes sir he is Mister Finch I declare he is old Tim Johnson yes sir yes sir yes she hung up and shook her head when we tried to ask her what attakus had said she rattled the telephone hook and said Miss Ula may now ma'am I'm through talking to mister Finch please do not connect me no more listen Miss Ula may can you call Miss Rachel and Miss Stephanie Crawford and whoever has got a phone on this street
• 192:30 - 193:00 and tell them a mad dog is coming please ma'am caleria listened I know it is February Miss UL but I know a mad dog when I see one please ma'am hurry calpernia asked Jem Radley's got a phone Jem looked in the book and said no they won't come out anyway Cal I do not care I'm going to tell them she ran to the front porch Gemini at her heels you stay in that house ceria's message had been received by the
• 193:00 - 193:30 neighborhood every wood door within our range of vision was closed tight we saw no trace of Tim Johnson we watched calpernia running toward the Radley Place holding her skirt and apron above her knees she went up to the front steps and banged on the door she got no answer and she shouted Mister Nathan Mister Arthur mad dog is coming Mad Dog's coming she is supposed to go around in back I said Jem shook his head don't make any difference now he said caleria
• 193:30 - 194:00 pounded on the door in vain no one acknowledged her warning no one seemed to have heard it as caleria sprinted to the back porch a black Ford swung into the driveway attacus and Mister hect got out mister hect Tate was the sheriff of makome County he was as tall as attacus but thinner he was long-nosed wore boots with shiny metal eyeholes boot pants and a lumber jacket his belt had a row of bullets sticking in it he carried a
• 194:00 - 194:30 heavy rifle when he and attakus reached the porch Jem opened the door stay inside son said attakus where is he Cal he ought to be here by now said caleria pointing down the street not running is he asked Mis take now sir he is in the twitching stage Mister heck should we go after him heck asked attakus we better wait Mister Finch they usually go in a straight line but you never can tell he might follow
• 194:30 - 195:00 the curve hope he does or he will go straight in the Radley backyard let's wait a minute don't think he will get in the Radley yard said attakus fence will stop him he will probably follow the road I thought Mad Dogs foamed at the mouth galloped leaped and lunged at throats and I thought they did it in August had Tim Johnson behaved thus I would have been less frightened nothing is more deadly than a deserted waiting Street the trees were
• 195:00 - 195:30 still the mocking birds were silent the Carpenters at Miss mot's house had vanished I heard Mister Tate sniff then blow his nose I saw him shift his gun to the crook of his arm I saw Miss Stephanie Crawford's face framed in the glass window of her front door Miss motty appeared and Stood Beside her attacus put his foot on the rung of a chair and rubbed his hand slowly down the side of his thigh there he is he said softly Tim Johnson came into sight
• 195:30 - 196:00 walking dazedly in the inner rim of the curve parallel to the Radley house look at him whispered Jem Mister hex said they walked in a straight line he can't even stay in the road he looks more sick than anything I said let anything get in front of him and he will come straight at it Mister Tate put his hand to his forehead and leaned forward he has got it all right mister Finch Tim Johnson was advancing at a snail's pace but he
• 196:00 - 196:30 was not playing or sniffing at foliage he seemed dedicated to one course and motivated by an invisible force that was inching him toward us we could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies his jaw opened and shut he was a list but he was being pulled gradually toward us he is looking for a place to die said Jem Mister Tate turned around heun's far from dead Jem he has not got started yet Tim Johnson reached the side street that
• 196:30 - 197:00 ran in front of the Radley place and what remained of his poor mind made him pause and seem to consider which road he would take he made a few hesitant steps and stopped in front of the Radley gate then he tried to turn around but was having difficulty attakus said he is within range heck you better get him before he goes down the side street Lord knows who is around the corner go inside Cal calpernia opened the screen door latched it behind her then unlatched it and held
• 197:00 - 197:30 on to the hook she tried to block Jem and me with her body but we looked out from beneath her arms take him Mister Finch Tate handed the rifle to attacus Gemini nearly fainted don't waste time heck said attakus go on Mis Finch this is a One-Shot job attakus shook his head vehemently do not just stand there heck he won't wait all day for you for God's sake Mister finch look where he is Miss and you will go straight into the Radley
• 197:30 - 198:00 house I can't shoot that well and you know it I haven't shot a gun in 30 years Mister Tate almost threw the rifle at attakus I would feel Mighty comfortable if you did now he said in a fog Gemini watched Our Father take the gun and walk out into the middle of the street he walked quickly but I thought he moved like an underwater swimmer time had slowed to a nauseating crawl when attakus raised his glasses calpernia
• 198:00 - 198:30 murmured sweet Jesus help him and put her hands to her cheeks attakus pushed his glasses to his forehead they slipped down and he dropped them in the street in the silence I heard them crack attakus rubbed his eyes and Chin we saw him blink hard in front of the Radley gate Tim Johnson had made up what was left of his mind he had finally turned himself around to pursue his original course up our street he made two steps forward then stopped and raised his head
• 198:30 - 199:00 we saw his body go rigid with movements so Swift they seemed simultaneous atticus's hand yanked a ball tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder the rifle cracked Tim Johnson leaped flopped over and crumpled on the side walk in a brown and white Heap he didn't know what hit him Mister Tate jumped off the porch and ran to the Radley place he stopped in front of the dog squatted turned around and tapped his finger on his forehead above his
• 199:00 - 199:30 left eye you were a little to the right mister Finch he called Always was answered attakus if I had my DRS I would take a shotgun he stooped and picked up his glasses ground the broken lenses to powder under his heel and went to to Mister Tate and stood looking down at Tim Johnson doors opened one by one and the neighborhood slowly came alive Miss motty walked down the steps with Miss Stephanie Crawford Jem was paralyzed I pinched him
• 199:30 - 200:00 to get him moving but when attakus saw us coming he called stay where you are when Mister Tate and attakus returned to the yard Mister Tate was smiling I will have Zebo collect him he said you haven't forgotten much mister Finch they say it never leaves you attakus was silent attakus question mark said gem yes nothing I saw that One-Shot Finch attakus wheeled around and faced Miss motty they looked at one another without
• 200:00 - 200:30 saying anything and attacus got into the sheriff's car come here he said to Jem don't you go near that dog you understand Don't Go Near him he is just as dangerous dead as alive yes sir said Jem attacus Dash whatson question mark nothing what is the matter with you boy cannot you talk said Mister Tate grinning at Jem did not you know your daddy is the hush heck said attakus let's go back to town when they drove away Jem and I went to miss Stephanie's
• 200:30 - 201:00 front steps we sat waiting for Zebo to arrive in the garbage truck gem sat in numb confusion and Miss Stephanie said uh uh uh who would have thought of a Mad Dog in February maybe he wasn't mad maybe he was just crazy I would hate to see Harry Johnson's face when he gets in from the mobile run and finds attacus Finch's shot his dog bet he was just full of fleas from somewhere Miss motty said Miss Stephanie would be
• 201:00 - 201:30 singing a different tune if Tim Johnson was still coming up the street that they would find out soon enough they would send his head to Montgomery Jen became vaguely articulate did you see him Scout did you see him just standing there and all of a sudden he just relaxed all over and it looked like that gun was a part of him and he did it so quick like I have to aim for 10 minutes before I can hit something Miss motty grinned wickedly well now
• 201:30 - 202:00 miss genan Louise she said still think your father cannot do anything still ashamed of him no I said meekly forgot to tell you the other day that besides playing the Jews harp attakus Finch was the deadest shot in makome county in his time Deadshot echoed Jem that what I said gem Finch guess you will change your tune now the very idea didn't you know his nickname was old onot when he was a boy why down at the Landing when he was
• 202:00 - 202:30 coming up if he shot 15 times and hit 14 doves he would complain about wasting ammunition he never said anything about that gem muttered never said anything about it did he no ma'am wonder why he never goes hunting now I said maybe I can tell you said Miss motty if your father's anything he's civilized in his heart Marksmanship is a gift of God a talent oh you have to practice to make it perfect but shooting is different from playing the piano or the like I
• 202:30 - 203:00 think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things I guess he decided he would not shoot until he had to and he had to today looks like he would be proud of it I said people in their right Minds never take pride in their talents said Miss motty we saw Zebo drive up he took a pitchfork from the back of the garbage truck and gingerly lifted Tim Johnson he pitched the dog onto the
• 203:00 - 203:30 truck then poured something from a gallon jug on and around the spot where Tim fell don't y'all come over here for a while he called when we went home I told Jem we would really have something to talk about at school on Monday Jem turned on me don't say anything about it Scout he said what I certainly am ain't everybody's daddy the deadest shot in makome County Jem said I reckon if he had wanted us to know it he would have told us if he was proud of it he would
• 203:30 - 204:00 have told us maybe it just slipped his mind I said no Scout it is something you would not understand attakus is really old but I wouldn't care if he couldn't do anything I wouldn't care if he couldn't do a blessed thing Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the carouse running after it he called back attakus is a Gentleman Just Like Me chapter 11 when we were small Jem and
• 204:00 - 204:30 I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood but when I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting bu radle became P the business section of makome Drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs Henry Lafayette dubos it was impossible to go to town without passing her house unless we wish to walk a mile out of the way previous minor encounters with her left me with no desire for more but gem
• 204:30 - 205:00 said I had to grow up sometime Mrs dubos lived alone except for a negro girl in constant attendance two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps in a dog Trot Hall she was very old she spent most of each day in bed and the rest of it in a wheelchair it was rumored that she kept a CSA pistol concealed among her numerous Shaws and wraps Gemini hated her if she was on the porch when we passed we would be Rak by her wrathful gaze subjected to
• 205:00 - 205:30 ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior and given a Melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up which was always nothing we had long ago given up the idea of walking past her house on the opposite opposite side of the street that only made her raise her voice and let the whole neighborhood in on it we could do nothing to please her if I said as sunnily as I could hey Mrs Dubose I would receive for an answer don't you say hey to me you ugly girl
• 205:30 - 206:00 you say good afternoon Mrs Dubose she was vicious once she heard gem refer to our father as attacus and her reaction was apoplectic besides being the sassiest most disrespectful muts who ever passed her way we were told that it was quite a Pity our father had not remarried after our mother's death a Lovelier lady than our mother never lived she said and it was heartbreaking the way attakus Finch let her children run wild I did not remember our mother
• 206:00 - 206:30 but Jem did he would tell me about her sometimes and he went livid when Mrs Dubose shot us this message Jem having survived bu Radley a Mad Dog and other Terrors had concluded that it was cowardly to stop at Miss Rachel's front steps and wait and had decreed that we must run as far as the post office Corner each evening to meet attakus coming from work countless evenings attakus would find gem furious at something Mrs Dubose
• 206:30 - 207:00 had said when we went by easy does it son attacus would say she is an old lady and she is ill you just hold your head high and be a gentleman whatever she says to you it is your job not to let her make you mad Jem would say she must not be very sick she hollered so when the three of us came to her house attakus would sweep off his hat wave gallantly to her and say good evening Mrs Dubose you look like a picture this evening I never heard attakus say like a
• 207:00 - 207:30 picture of what he would tell her the courthouse news and would say he hoped with all his heart she would have a good day tomorrow he would return his hat to his head swing me to his shoulders in her very presence and we would go home in the Twilight it was Times Like These when I thought my father who hated guns and had never been to any wars was the bravest man who ever lived the day after Jem's 12th birthday his money was burning up his pockets so we headed for
• 207:30 - 208:00 town in the early afternoon gem thought he had enough to buy a miniature steam engine for himself and a twirling baton for me I had long had my eye on that baton it was at v j elmores it was beded with sequins in Tinsel it cost 17 it was then my burning ambition to grow up and twirl with the makome County High School band having developed my talent to where I could throw up a stick and almost catch it coming down I had
• 208:00 - 208:30 caused caleria to deny me entrance to the house every time she saw me with a stick in my hand I felt that I could overcome this defect with a Real Baton and I thought it generous of gem to buy one for me Mrs dubos was stationed on her porch when we went by where are you two going at this time of day she shouted playing hookie I suppose I will just call up the principal and tell him she put her hands on the wheels of her chair and executed a perfect right face
• 208:30 - 209:00 a it is Saturday Mrs dubos said Jim makes no difference if it is Saturday she said obscurely I wonder if your father knows where you are Mrs Dubose we have been going to town by ourselves since we were this high Jem placed his hand palmed down about two feet above the sidewalk don't you lie to me Jeremy Finch myty Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong Arbor this morning she is going to tell your father and
• 209:00 - 209:30 then you will wish you never saw the light of day if you are not sent to the reform school before next week my name is not dubos gem who had not been near Miss M's scuppernong Arbor since last summer and who knew Miss motty would not tell attakus if he had had issued a general denial don't you contradict me Mrs Dubose balled and you she pointed an arthritic finger at me what are you doing in those overalls you should be in a dress and camiso young lady you will
• 209:30 - 210:00 grow up waiting on tables if somebody does not change your ways a finch waiting on tables at the okay Cafe I was terrified the okay Cafe was a dim organization on the north side of the square I grabbed Jem's hand but but he shook me loose come on Scout he whispered don't pay any attention to her just hold your head high and be a gentleman but Mrs debose held us not only a finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for
• 210:00 - 210:30 gem stiffened Mrs dubose's shot had gone home and she knew it yes indeed what has this world come to when a finch goes against his raising I will tell you she put her hand to her mouth when she drew it away it trailed a long Silver Thread of saliva your fathers know better than the and trash he works for Gem was Scarlet I pulled at his sleeve and we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration the major premise of
• 210:30 - 211:00 which was that half the finches were in the Asylum anyway but if our mother were living we would not have come to such a state I wasn't sure what gem resented most but I took umbrage at Mrs dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene I had become almost accustomed to hearing insults aimed at attakus but this was the first one coming from an adult except for her remarks about attacus Mrs dubose's attack was only routine there was a hint of summer in
• 211:00 - 211:30 the air in the shadows it was cool but the sun was warm which meant good times coming no school and Dill gem bought his steam engine and we went by elmor's for my baton gem took no pleasure in his acquisition he jammed it in his pocket and walked silently beside me toward home on the way home I nearly hit Mr Link de who said look out now Scout when I missed a toss and when we approached mistress de's house my baton was grimy
• 211:30 - 212:00 from having picked it up out of the dirt so many times she was not on the porch in later years I sometimes wondered exactly what made gem do it what made him break the bonds of you just be a gentleman son and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered gem had probably stood as much Guff about attacus lawing for African-Americans as had I and I took it for granted that he kept his temper he had a naturally tranquil disposition and a slow fuse at the time however I
• 212:00 - 212:30 thought the only explanation for what he did was that for a few minutes he simply went mad what gem did was something I would do as a matter of course had I not been under atticus's interdict which I assumed includ Ed not fighting horrible old ladies we had just come to her gate when gem snatched my baton and ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs de's front yard forgetting everything attakus had said forgetting that she packed a pistol under her Shaws
• 212:30 - 213:00 forgetting that if Mrs deos missed her girl Jesse probably wouldn't he did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every chamia Bush Mrs debose owned until the ground was littered with green Buds and leaves he bent my baton against his knee snapped it in two and threw it down by that time I was shrieking Jem yanked my hair said he did not care he would do it again if he got a chance and if I did not shut up he would pull every hair out
• 213:00 - 213:30 of my head I did not shut up and he kicked me I lost my balance and fell on my face gem picked me up roughly but looked like he was sorry there was nothing to say we did not choose to meet attakus coming home that evening we skulked around the kitchen until caleria threw us out by some Voodoo system calper seemed to know all about it she was a less than satisfactory source of pation but she did give gem a hot biscuit and butter which he tore in half
• 213:30 - 214:00 and shared with me it tasted like cotton we went to the living room I picked up a football magazine found a picture of Dixie Howell showed it to Jem and said this looks like you that was the nicest thing I could think to say to him but it was no help he sat by the windows hunched down in a rocking chair scowling waiting daylight faded two geological ages later we heard the SES of atticus' shoes scrape the front steps the screen
• 214:00 - 214:30 door slammed there was a pause attakus was at the hat rack in the hall and we heard him call gem his voice was like the Winter Wind attakus switched on the ceiling light in the living room and found us there Frozen still he carried my baton in one hand its filthy yellow tassel trailed on the rug he held out his other hand it contained fat Chamilia buds Jem he said are you responsible for this yes sir why did you do it Jem said
• 214:30 - 215:00 Softly She said you laughed for people in trash you did this because she said that Jem's lips moved but his yes sir was inaudible son I have no doubt that you have been annoyed by your contemporaries about me lawing for as you say but to do something like this to a sick old lady is inexcusable I strongly advise you to go down and have a talk with Mrs Dubose said attakus come straight home afterward Jem did not move go on I said
• 215:00 - 215:30 I followed gem out of the living room come back here attakus said to me I came back attakus picked up the mobile press and sat down in the rocking chair Jem had vacated for the life of me I did not understand how he could sit there In Cold Blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic of course gem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him but when it came down to it he was all I had
• 215:30 - 216:00 attakus did not seem to realize this or if he did he did not care I hated him for that but when you're in trouble you become easily tired soon I was hiding in his lap and his arms were around me you are Mighty big to be rocked he said you do not care what happens to him I said you just send him on to get shot at when all he was doing was standing up for you attakus pushed my head under his chin it is not time to worry yet he said I never
• 216:00 - 216:30 thought gem would be the one to lose his head over this thought I would have more trouble with you I said I didn't see why we had to keep our heads anyway that nobody I knew at school had to keep his head about anything Scouts attakus when summer comes you will have to keep your head about far worse things it is not fair for you and Gem I know that but sometimes we have to make the best of things and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down well all I can say is when you and
• 216:30 - 217:00 Gem are grown maybe you will look back on this with some compassion and some feeling that I did not let you down this case Tom Robinson's case is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience Scout I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man attacus you must be wrong how is that well most folks seem to think they are right and you are wrong they are certainly entitled to think that and
• 217:00 - 217:30 they are entitled to full respect for their opinions said attacus but before I can live with other folks I have got to live with myself the one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience when gem returned he found me still in atticus's lap well son said attakus he set me on my feet and I made a secret reconnaissance of gem he seemed to be Allin one piece but he had a queer look on his face perhaps she had given him a dose of calamel I cleaned it up
• 217:30 - 218:00 for her and said I was sorry but I am not and that I would work on them every Saturday and try to make them grow back out there was no point in saying you were sorry if you are not said attakus she is old and Ill you can't hold her responsible for what she says and does of course I would rather she had said it to me than to either of you but we cannot always have our DRS gem seemed fascinated by a rose in the carpet
• 218:00 - 218:30 attakus he said she wants me to read to her read to her yes sir she wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for 2 hours attakus do I have to certainly but she wants me to do it for a month then you will do it for a month Jem planted his big toe delicately in the center of the Rose and pressed it in finally he said attakus it is all right on the sidewalk but inside it is it is all dark and creepy there is shadows and things
• 218:30 - 219:00 on the ceiling attaka smiled grimly that should appeal to your imagination just pretend you are inside the Radley house the following Monday afternoon Gem and I climbed the Steep front steps to miss Mrs dub' house and patted down the open hallway Jem armed with ivanho and full of superior knowledge knocked at the second door on the left Mrs dubos question mark he called Jesse opened the wood door and unlatched the screen door
• 219:00 - 219:30 is that you Jem Finch she said you got your sister with you I don't know let them both in Jesse said Mrs Dubose Jesse admitted us and went off to the kitchen an oppressive odor met us when we cross the threshold an odor I had met many times in Rain rotted gray houses where there are coal and oil lamps water Dippers and unbleached domestic sheets it always made me afraid expectant watchful in the corner of the room was a
• 219:30 - 220:00 brass bed and in the bed was Mrs Dubose I wondered if Jem's activities had put her there and for a moment I felt sorry for her she was lying under a pile of quilts and looked almost friendly there was a marble topped wash standand by her bed on it were a glass with a teaspoon in it a red ear syringe a box of absorbent cotton and a steel alarm clock standing on three tiny legs so you brought that dirty little sister of yours did you was her greeting Jem said
• 220:00 - 220:30 quietly my sister is not dirty and I am not scared of you although I noticed his knees shaking I was expecting a tyde but all she said was you may commence reading Jeremy Jem sat down in a cane bottom chair and opened ivanho I pulled up another one and sat beside him come closer said Mrs dubos come to the side of the bed we moved our chairs forward this was the nearest I had ever been to her and the thing I wanted most to do was move my chair back
• 220:30 - 221:00 again she was horrible her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet which inched like a glacier down the Deep grooves enclosing her chin old age liver spots dotted her cheeks and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils her hands were knobby and the cuticles were grown up over her fingernails her bottom plate was not in and her upper lip protruded from time to time she would draw her nether lip to
• 221:00 - 221:30 her upper plate and carry her chin with it this made the wet move faster I didn't look any more than I had to gem reopened ivanho and began reading I tried to keep up with him but he read too fast when gem came to a word he did not know he skipped it but Mrs debose would catch him and make him spell it out Jem read for perhaps 20 minutes during which time I looked at the soot stained mantlepiece out the window anywhere to keep from looking at her as
• 221:30 - 222:00 he read along I noticed that Mrs de's Corrections grew fewer and farther between that Jem had even left one sentence dangling in midair she was not listening I looked toward the bed something had happened to her she lay on her back with the quilts up to her chin only her head and shoulders were visible her head moved slowly from side to side from time to time she would open her mouth wide and I could see her tongue undulate faintly cords of saliva would
• 222:00 - 222:30 collect on her lips she would draw them in then open her mouth again her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own it worked separate and apart from the rest of her out and in like a CL Lam hole at low tide occasionally it would say te like some viscous substance coming to a boil I pulled Jem's sleeve he looked at me then at the bed her head made its regular sweep toward us and Jem said Mrs debose are you all right she
• 222:30 - 223:00 did not hear him the alarm clock went off and scared us stiff a minute later nerves still tingling Gem and I were on the sidewalk headed for home we did not run away Jesse sent us before the clock wound down she was in the room pushing Jem and me out of it Sho she said you all go home Jem hesitated at the door it is time for her medicine Jesse said as the door swung shut behind us I saw Jesse walking quickly toward Mrs dubose's bed it was only 3:45 when we
• 223:00 - 223:30 got home so Jem and I dropped kicked in the backyard until it was time to meet attakus attakus had two yellow pencils for me and a football magazine for Gem which I suppose was was a silent reward for our first day session with Mrs dubos gem told him what happened did she frighten you asked attakus no sir said Jem but she is so nasty she has fits or something she spits a lot she can't help
• 223:30 - 224:00 that when people are sick they do not look nice sometimes she scared me I said attakus looked at me over his glasses you do not have to go with gem you know the next afternoon at Mrs dubose's was the same as the first and so was the next until gradually a pattern emerged everything would begin normally that is Mrs Dubose would Hound gem for a while on her favorite subjects her Chamas and our father's nigger-loving propensities she would grow increasingly silent then
• 224:00 - 224:30 go away from us the alarm clock would ring Jesse would shoe us out and the rest of the day was ours attacus I said one evening what exactly is a lover atticus's face was grave has somebody been calling you that no sir Mrs dubos calls you that she warms up every afternoon calling you that Francis called me that last Christmas that is where I first heard it is that the reason you jumped on him asked attakus yes sir then why are you asking me what
• 224:30 - 225:00 it means I tried to explain to attakus that it was not so much what Francis said that had infuriated me as the way he had said it it was like he had said snot noos or something Scout said atus lover is just one of those terms that do not mean anything like Snot knows it is hard to explain Dash ignorant trashy people use it when they think somebody is favoring Negroes over and above themselves it is slipped into usage with some people like ourselves
• 225:00 - 225:30 when they want a common ugly term to label somebody you are not really a lover then are you I certainly am I do my best to love everybody I am hard put sometimes baby it is never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name it just shows you how poor that person is it does not hurt you so do not let Mrs dubos get you down she has enough troubles of her own one afternoon a month later Jem was plowing his way
• 225:30 - 226:00 through Sir Walter Scout as Jem called him and Mrs Dubose was correcting him at every turn when there was a knock on the door come in she screamed attakus came in he went to the bed and took Mrs dubose's hand hand I was coming from the office and did not see the children he said I thought they might still be here Mrs dubau smiled at him for the life of me I could not figure out how she could bring herself to speak to him when she seemed to hate him so do you know what
• 226:00 - 226:30 time it is attakus she said exactly 14 minutes 5 the alarm clock set for 5:30 I want you to know that it suddenly came to me that each day we had been staying a little little longer at Mrs dubose's that the alarm clock went off a few minutes later every day and that she was well into one of her fits by the time it sounded today she had antagonized gem for nearly 2 hours with no intention of having a fit and I felt hopelessly
• 226:30 - 227:00 trapped the alarm clock was the signal for our release if one day it did not ring what would we do I have a feeling that Gem's reading days are numbered said attakus only a week longer I think she said just to make sure gem Rose but attakus put out his hand and Gem was silent on the way home Jem said he had to do it just for a month and the month was up and it was not fair just one more week son said attakus no yes said
• 227:00 - 227:30 attakus the following week found us back at Mrs dubose's the alarm clock had ceased sounding but Mrs Dubose would release us with that will do so late in the afternoon attacus would be home reading the paper when when we returned although her fits had passed off she was in every other way her old self when Sir Walter Scott became involved in lengthy descriptions of moates and castles Mrs debose would become bored and pick on Us Jeremy Finch
• 227:30 - 228:00 I told you you would live to regret tearing up my Chamas you regret it now do not you Jem would say he certainly did thought you could kill my snow on the mountain did you well Jesse says the top is growing back back out next time you will know how to do it right will you you will pull it up by the roots will you Jem would say he certainly would do not you mutter at me boy you hold up your head and say yes ma'am don't guess you feel
• 228:00 - 228:30 like holding it up though with your father what he is Jem's chin would come up and he would gaze at Mrs Dubose with a face devoid of resentment through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest which he would present to her in answer to her most blood curdling inventions at last the day came when Mrs Dubose said that will do one afternoon she added and that is all good day to you it was over we bounded down the
• 228:30 - 229:00 sidewalk on a spree of sheer relief leaping and Howling that spring was a good one the days grew longer and gave us more playing time Jem's mind was occupied mostly with the vital statistics of every college football player in the Nation every night attakus would read us the sports pages of the newspapers Alabama might go to the Rose Bowl again this year judging from its prospects not one of whose names we could pronounce attacus was in the middle of
• 229:00 - 229:30 windy Satan's column one evening when the telephone rang he answered it then went to the hat rack in the hall I am going down to Mrs dubos for a while he said I will not be long but attakus stayed away until long past my bedtime when he returned he was carrying a candy box attakus sat down in the living room and put the Box on the floor beside his chair what did she want asked Jem we had not seen Mrs dubos for over a month she
• 229:30 - 230:00 was never on the porch anymore when we passed she is dead son said attakus she died a few minutes ago oh said Jem well well is Right said attakus she is not suffering anymore she was sick for a long time son didn't you know what her fits were Jem shook his head Mrs dubos was a morphine addict said attakus she took it as a painkiller for years the doctor put her on it she would have spent the rest of her life on it and died without so
• 230:00 - 230:30 much Agony but she was too contrary sir said Jem attakus said just before your Escapade she called me to make her will doctor Reynolds told her she had only a few months left her business affair were in perfect order but she said there is still one thing out of order what was that Jem was perplexed she said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody gem when you are sick as she was it is all right to take
• 230:30 - 231:00 anything to make it easier but it was not all right for her she said she meant to break herself of it before she died and that is what she did Jem said you mean that is what her fits were yes that is what they were most of the time you were reading to her I doubt if she heard a word you said her whole mind and body were concentrated on that alarm clock if you hadn't fallen into her hands I would have made you go read to her anyway it may have been some distraction
• 231:00 - 231:30 there was another reason did she die free asked gem as the Mountain Air said attakus she was conscious to the last Almost conscious he smiled in cantankerous she still disapproved hardly of my doings and said I would probably spend the rest of my life bailing you out of jail she had Jesse fix you this box attacus reached down and picked up the candy box he handed it to Jem Jem opened the box inside surrounded by wads of damp cotton was a
• 231:30 - 232:00 white waxy perfect chamellia it was a snow on the mountain Jem's eyes nearly popped out of his head old hell devil old hell devil he screamed flinging it down why can't she leave me Al alone in a Flash attakus was up and standing over him Jem buried his face in atticus's shirt front he said I think that was her way of telling you dash everything is all right now Jem everything is all right you know she was a great lady a
• 232:00 - 232:30 lady gem raised his head his face was Scarlet after all those things she said about you a lady she was she had her own views about things a lot different from mine maybe son I told you that if you had not lost your head I would have made you go read to her I wanted you to see something about her I wanted you to see what real courage is instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand it is when you know you
• 232:30 - 233:00 are licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what you rarely win but sometimes you do Mrs Dubose won all 98 pounds of her according to her views she died Holden to nothing and nobody she was the bravest person I ever knew gem picked up the candy box and threw it in the fire he picked up the chamelia and when I went off to bed I saw him fingering the wide pedals attakus was reading the
• 233:00 - 233:30 paper chapter 12 gem was 12 he was difficult to live with inconsistent Moody his appetite was appalling and he told me so many times to stop pest ing him I consulted attakus reckon he's got a tapeworm attakus said no gem was growing I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible this change in gem had come about in a matter of weeks Mrs debose was not cold in her
• 233:30 - 234:00 grave Dash gem had seemed grateful enough for my company when he went to read to her overnight it seemed gem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me several times he went so far as to to tell me what to do after one altercation when gem hollered it is time you started being a girl and acting right I burst into tears and fled to calpernia don't you fret too much over Mr gem she began Mr gem question mark yeah he is just
• 234:00 - 234:30 about Mr gem now he isn't that old I said all he needs is somebody to beat him up and I am not big enough baby said caleria I just can't help it if Mr Gem's growing up he is going to want to be off to himself a lot now doing whatever boys do so you just come right on in the kitchen when you feel Lonesome we will find lots of things to do in here the beginning of that summer boated well Jem could do as he pleased calper would do
• 234:30 - 235:00 until Dill came she seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl but summer came and Dill was not there I received a letter and a snapshot from him the letter said he had a new father whose picture was enclosed and he would have to stay in Meridian because they planned to build a fishing boat his father was a lawyer like attakus only much younger Dill's new
• 235:00 - 235:30 father had a pleasant face which made me glad Dill had captured him but I was crushed Dill concluded by saying he would love me forever and not to worry he would come get me and marry me as soon as he got enough money together so please write the fact that I had a permanent fiance was little compensation for his absence I had never thought about it but summer was Dill by the fish poool smoking string Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make buo Radley emerge summer was the swiftness
• 235:30 - 236:00 with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when gem was not looking the longings we sometimes felt each other feel with him life was routine without him life was unbearable I stayed miserable for 2 days as if that were not enough the state legislature was called into emergency session and attacus left us for 2 weeks the governor was eager to scrape a few Barnacles off the ship of State there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham breadlines in the cities grew
• 236:00 - 236:30 longer people in the country grew poorer but these were events remote from the world of gem and me we were surprised one morning to see a cartoon in the Montgomery Advertiser above the caption mak's Finch it showed attakus barefooted and in short pants chained to a desk he was diligently writing on a slate while some frivolous looking girls yelled youo at him that is a compliment explained Jem he spends his time doing
• 236:30 - 237:00 things that would not get done if nobody did them huh in addition to Gem's newly developed characteristics he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom oh Scout it is like reorganizing the tax system systems of the counties and things that kind of thing is pretty dry to most men how do you know oh go on and leave me alone I am reading the paper gem got his wish I departed for the kitchen while she was shelling peas caleria suddenly said what am I going to
• 237:00 - 237:30 do about you all's church this Sunday nothing I reckon attacus left us collection ceria's eyes narrowed and I could tell what was going through her mind Cal I said you know we will behave we haven't done anything in church in years caleria evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacher left to its own devices the class tied Unice Anne Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room we
• 237:30 - 238:00 forgot her trooped upstairs to church and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Unice Anne saying she did not want to play Shadrach anymore gem Finch said she would not get burnt if she had enough Faith but it was hot down there besides Cal this isn't the first time attakus has left us I protested yeah but he makes certain your teacher is going to
• 238:00 - 238:30 be there I didn't hear him say this time reckon he forgot it caleria scratched her head suddenly she smiled how would you and Mr gem like to come to church with me tomorrow really how about it grinned calpernia if calpernia had ever bathed me roughly before it was nothing compared to her supervision of that Saturday night's routine she made me soap all over twice Drew fresh water in the tub for each rinse she stuck my head in the Basin and
• 238:30 - 239:00 washed it with octagon soap and Castile she had trusted jeem for years but that night she invaded his privacy and provoked an outburst cannot anybody take a bath in this house without the whole family looking next morning she began earlier than usual to go over our clothes when calpernia stayed overnight with us she slept on a folding cot in the kitchen that morning it was covered with our Sunday habiliments she had put so much starch
• 239:00 - 239:30 in my dress it came up like a tent when I sat down she made me wear a petticoat and she wrapped a pink sash tightly around my waist she went over my patent leather shoes with a cold biscuit until she saw her face in them it is like we were going to Marty gr said Jem what is all this for Cal I do not want anybody saying I do not look after my children she muttered Mr gem you absolutely cannot wear that tie with that suit it is green what is the matter
• 239:30 - 240:00 with that the suit is blue cannot you tell he he I howled Gem's color blind his face flushed angrily but caleria said now you all quit that you are going to go to first purchase with with smiles on your faces first purchase African me church was in the quarters outside the southern town limits across the Old Sawmill tracks it was an ancient paint peeled frame building the only church in makome with a steeple and Bell called
• 240:00 - 240:30 first purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays the churchyard was brick hard clay as was the cemetery bes IDE it if someone died during a dry spell the body was covered with chunks of ice until rain softened the earth a few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola
• 240:30 - 241:00 bottles lightning rods guarding some Graves denoted Dead who rested uneasily stumps of burned out candles stood at the heads of infant Graves it was a happy Cemetery the warm Bittersweet smell of clean negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard hearts of love hairdressing mingled with acatita snuff Ho's cologne Brown's mule peppermint and lilac talom when they saw Jem and me with calpernia the men stepped back and took off their hats the women crossed
• 241:00 - 241:30 their arms at their waists weekday gestures of respectful attention they parted and made a small Pathway to the church door for us caleria walked between Jem and me responding to the greetings of of her brightly clad neighbors what are you up to miss Cal said a voice behind us ceria's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around standing in the path behind us was a tall negro woman her weight was on one leg she
• 241:30 - 242:00 rested her left elbow in the curve of her hip pointing at us with upturned palm she was bullet-headed with strange almond-shaped eyes straight nose and an Indian bow mouth she seemed 7 ft High I felt ceria's hand dig into my shoulder what you want Lula she asked in tones I had never heard her use she spoke quietly contemptuously I want to know why you are bringing white children to Church they are my company said cernia again I thought her voice strange
• 242:00 - 242:30 she was talking like the rest of them yeah and I reckon you are company at the finch house during the week a murmur ran through the crowd don't you fret Cal peria whispered to me but the Roses on her hat trembled indignantly when Lula came up the pathway toward us caleria said stop right there Lula stopped but she said you ain't got no business bringing white Chillin here they got their church we got our it is
• 242:30 - 243:00 our church isn't it Miss Cal caleria said it is the same God is it not Jem said let us go home Cal they do not want us here I agreed they did not want us here I sensed rather than saw that we were being Advanced upon they seemed to be drawing closer to us but when I looked up at caleria there was Amusement in her eyes when I looked down the pathway again Lula was gone in her place was a solid mass of colored people one of them stepped from the crowd it was
• 243:00 - 243:30 Zebo the garbage collector Mr gem he said we are Mighty glad to have you all here do not pay any attention to Lula she is contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her she is a troublemaker from way back got fancy ideas and hoty ways we are Mighty glad to have you all with that calpernia led us to the church door where we were greeted by Reverend Sykes who led us to the front Pew first purchase was unsealed and unpainted within along its
• 243:30 - 244:00 walls unlighted kerosene lamps hung on brass brackets Pine benches served as pews behind the rough Oak Pulpit a faded pink silk Banner proclaimed God is love the church's only decoration except a revier print of hunts the light of the world there was no sign of piano organ hym books Church programs The Familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday it was dim inside with a damp coolness slowly dispelled by the
• 244:00 - 244:30 Gathering congregation at each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane courtesy of tindles hardware company You Name It We Sell It caleria motioned Jem and me to the end of the road and placed herself between us she fished in her purse Drew out her handkerchief and untied the hard wad of change in its Corner she gave a dime to me and a dime to Jem we have got ours he whispered you keep it caleria said you're my company Jem's face showed
• 244:30 - 245:00 brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket I did likewise with no qualms Cal I whispered where are the hym books we do not have any she said well how Dash question mark she said Reverend Sykes was standing behind the pulpit staring the congregation to silence he was a short stocky man in a black suit Black Tie white shirt and a gold watch
• 245:00 - 245:30 chain that glinted in the light from the Frosted Windows he said Brethren and sisters we are particularly glad to have company with us this morning Mr and Miss Finch you all know their father before I begin I will read some announcements Reverend Sykes shuffled some papers chose one and held it at arms length the missionary Society meets in the home of sister Annette Reeves next Tuesday bring your sewing he read from another paper
• 245:30 - 246:00 you all know of brother Tom Robinson's trouble he has been a faithful member of first purchase since he was a boy The Collection taken up today and for the next three Sundays we'll go to Helen his wife to help her out at home I punched gem that is the Tom attakus d-h I turned to calpernia but was hushed before I open my mouth subdued I fixed my attention upon Reverend Sykes who seemed to be waiting for me to settle down will the music superintendent lead us in the
• 246:00 - 246:30 first hymn he said Zebo Rose from his Pew and walked down the center aisle stopping in front of us and facing the congregation he was carrying a battered hym book he opened it said we will sing number 273 this was too much for me how are we going to sing it if there are not any hym books caleria smiled hush baby she whispered you will see in a minute Zebo cleared his throat and read in a voice
• 246:30 - 247:00 like the rumble of distant artillery there is a land beyond the river miraculously on pitch a hundred voices sang out zebo's words the last syllable held to a husky hum was followed by Zebo saying that we call the sweet forever music again swelled around us the last note lingered and Zebo met it with the next line and we only reached that Shore by Faith's decree the congregation hesitated Zebo repeated the line carefully and it was sung at the chorus
• 247:00 - 247:30 Zebo closed the book a signal for the congregation to proceed without his help on the dying notes of Jubilee Zebo said in that far off sweet forever just beyond The Shining River line for line voices followed in simple Harmony until the hym ended in a Melancholy murmur I looked at Jem who was looking at Zebo from the corners of his eyes I didn't believe it either but we had both heard it Reverend Sykes then called on the lord to bless the sick and the suffering
• 247:30 - 248:00 a procedure no different from our church practice except Reverend Sykes directed the de's attention to several specific cases his sermon was a forthright denunciation of of sin an austere Declaration of the motto on the wall behind him he warned his flock against the evils of heady bruise gambling and strange women Bootleggers caused enough trouble in the quarters but women were worse again as I had often met it in my own church I was confronted with the
• 248:00 - 248:30 impurity of women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen Jem and I had heard the same sermon Sunday after Sunday with only one exception Reverend Sykes used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses From Grace Jim Hardy had been absent from church for five Sundays and he was not sick Constance Jackson had better watch her ways she was in grave danger for quarreling with her neighbors she had erected the only spite fence in the history of the
• 248:30 - 249:00 quarters Reverend Sykes closed his sermon he Stood Beside a table in front of the pulpit and requested the morning offering a proceeding that was strange to Jem and me one by one the congregation came forward and dropped nickels and dimes into a black enameled coffee can Gemini followed suit and received a soft thank you thank you as our dimes clinked to our amazement Reverend Sykes emptied the can onto the table and Rak the coins into his hand he
• 249:00 - 249:30 straightened up and said this is not enough we must have $10 the congregation stirred you all know what it is for Helen cannot leave those children to work while Tom is in jail if everybody gives one more dime we will have it Reverend Sykes waved his hand and called to someone in the back of the church Alex shut the doors nobody leaves here till we have $10 calpernia scratched in her handbag and brought forth a battered leather coin purse no
• 249:30 - 250:00 Cal Jem whispered when she handed him a shiny quarter we can put ours in give me your dime Scout the church was becoming stuffy and it occurred to me that Reverend Sykes intended to sweat the amount due out of his flock fans crackled feet shuffled tobacco chewers were in agony Reverend Sykes startled me by saying sternly Carlo Richardson I have not seen you up this aisle yet a thin man in khaky pants
• 250:00 - 250:30 came up the aisle and deposited a coin the congregation murmured approval Reverend Sykes then said I want all of you with no children to make a sacrifice and give one more dime a piece then we will have it slowly painfully the $10 was collected the door was opened and the gust of warm air revived us Zebo lined on Jordan's stormy Banks and church was over I wanted to stay and explore but calpernia propelled me up the aisle ahead of her
• 250:30 - 251:00 at the church door while she paused to talk with Zebo and his family Jem and I chatted with Reverend Sykes I was bursting with questions but decided I would wait and let calpernia answer them we were especially glad to have you all here said Reverend Sykes this church has no better friend than your daddy my curiosity burst why were you all taking up collection for Tom Robinson's wife did not you hear why asked Reverend Sykes Helen's got three little ones and
• 251:00 - 251:30 she can't go out to work why can't she take them with her Reverend I asked it was customary for field negroes with tiny children to deposit them in whatever shade there was while their parents worked usually the babies sat in the shade between two rows of cotton those unable to sit were strapped Papoose Style on their mother's backs or resided in extra cotton bags Reverend Sykes hesitated to tell you the truth Miss Jee Louise Helen is finding it hard
• 251:30 - 252:00 to get work these days when it is picking time I think Mr Link de will take her why not Reverend before he could answer I felt ceria's hand on my shoulder at its pressure I said we thank you for letting us come Jem echoed me and we made our way Homeward Cal I know Tom Robinson's in jail and he's done something awful but why won't folks hire Helen I asked calpernia in her Navy voil dress and tub of a hat walked between Jem and me it is because of what folks
• 252:00 - 252:30 say Tom has done she said folks are not anxious to have anything to do with any of his family just what did he do cal cal peria sigh old Mr Bob U ACC accused him of raping his girl and had him arrested and put in jail Mr you will question mark my memory stirred does he have anything to do with those uleles that come every first day of school and then go home why attakus said they were absolute trash I never heard attakus
• 252:30 - 253:00 talk about folks the way he talked about the ews he said yeah those are the ones well if everybody in makome knows what kind of folks the ules are they would be glad to hire Helen what is rape Cal it is something you will have to ask Mr Finch about she said he can explain it better than I can you all hungry the Reverend took a long time unwinding this morning he's not usually so tedious he is just like our preacher said Jem but why do you all sing hymns that way
• 253:00 - 253:30 lining question mark she asked is that what it is yeah it is called lining they have done it that way as long as I can remember gem said it looked like they could save the collection money for a year and get some hym books caleria laughed would not do any good she said they cannot read cannot read I asked all those folks that is right caleria nodded cannot but about four folks in first purchase read I am one of them where did
• 253:30 - 254:00 you go to school Cal asked Jim nowhere let us see now who taught me my letters it was Miss mty Atkinson's Aunt Old Miss Buford are you that old I'm older than Miss Mr Finch even caleria grinned not sure how much though we started remembering one time trying to figure out how old I was I can remember back just a few years more than he can so I'm not much older when you take off the fact that men can can't remember as well as
• 254:00 - 254:30 women what is your birthday Cal I just have it on Christmas it is easier to remember that way I do not have a real birthday but Cal Jem protested you do not look even near as old as attakus colored folks do not show their ages so fast she said maybe because they cannot read Cal did you teach Zebo yeah Mr gem there wasn't a school even when he was a boy I made him learn though Zebo was ceria's eldest son if I had ever thought
• 254:30 - 255:00 about it I would have known that calpernia was of mature years Zebo had half-grown children but then I had never thought about it did you teach him out of a primer like us I asked no I made him get a page of the Bible every day and there was a book Miss Buford taught me out of bet you don't know where I got it she said we didn't know caleria said your granddaddy Finch gave it to me were you from The Landing Jem asked you never told us that I certainly am Mr gem grew
• 255:00 - 255:30 up down there between the Buford place and the landing I have spent all my days working for the finches or the bufords and I moved to makome when your daddy and your mama married what was the book Cal I asked blackstone's commentaries Jem was thunder struck you mean you taught Zebo out of that why yes sir Mr gem calper timidly put her fingers to her mouth they were the only books I had your granddaddy said Mr Blackstone wrote fine
• 255:30 - 256:00 English that is why you do not talk like the rest of them said Jem the rest of who rest of the colored folks Cal but you talk like they did in church that calper led a modest double life never dawned on me the idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one to say nothing of her having command of two languages call I asked why do you talk talk to the to your folks when you know it is not
• 256:00 - 256:30 right well in the first place I am black that does not mean you have to talk that way when you know better said Jem caleria tilted her hat and scratched her head then pressed her hat down carefully over her ears it is right hard to say she said suppose you and Scout talk colored folks talk at home it would be out of place would it not now what if I talked white folks talk at church and with my neighbors they would think I was putting on airs to beat Moses but Cal
• 256:30 - 257:00 you know better I said it is not necessary to tell all you know it is not ladylike in the second place folks do not like to have somebody around knowing more than they do it aggravates them you are not going to change any of them by talking right they have got to want to learn themselves and when they do not want to learn there is nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language Cal can I come to see you sometimes she looked down at me see me
• 257:00 - 257:30 honey you see me every day out to your house I said sometimes after work attacus can get me anytime you want to she said we would be glad to have you we were on the sidewalk by the Radley place look on the porch Yonder Jem said I looked over to the Radley Place expecting to see its Phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing the swing was empty I mean our porch said Jem I looked down the street in armored
• 257:30 - 258:00 upright uncompromising Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair exactly as if she had sat there every day of her life chapter 13 put my bag in the front bedroom caleria was the first thing Aunt Alexandra said Jean Lise stop scratching your head was the second thing she said caleria picked up Auntie's heavy suitcase and opened the door I will take it said Jem and took it I heard the
• 258:00 - 258:30 suitcase hit the bedroom floor with a thump the sound had a dull permanence about it have you come for a visit auntie I asked ant Alexandra's visits from the landing were rare and she traveled in state she owned a bright green square Buick and a black chauffeur both kept in an unhealthy state of tidiness but today they were nowhere to be seen did not your father tell you she asked Gem and I shook our heads probably he forgot he is not in yet is he no he
• 258:30 - 259:00 doesn't usually get back till late afternoon said gem well your father and I decided it was time I came to stay with you for a while for a while in makome me anything from 3 days to 30 years Jem and I exchanged glances Jem is growing up now and you are too she said to me we decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence it won't be many years John Louise before you become interested in clothes and
• 259:00 - 259:30 boys I could have made several answers to this Cal's a girl it would be many years before I would be interested in boys I would never be interested in clothes but I kept quiet what about Uncle Jimmy asked Jem is he coming too oh no he is staying at the Landing he will keep the place going the moment I said won't you miss him I realized that this was not a
• 259:30 - 260:00 tactful question Uncle Jimmy present or Uncle Jimmy absent made not much difference he never said anything Aunt Alexandra ignored my question I could think of nothing else to say to her in fact I could never think of anything to say to her and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us how are you John Louise fine thank you ma'am how are you very well thank you what have you been doing with yourself nothing don't you do anything Nami certainly you
• 260:00 - 260:30 have friends yesam well what do you all do nothing it was plain that Auntie thought me dull in the extreme because I once heard her tell attacus that I was sluggish there was a story behind all this but I had no desire to extract it from her then today was Sunday and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord's day I guess it was her Sunday corset she was not fat but solid and she chose protective garments that Drew up her
• 260:30 - 261:00 bosom to Giddy Heights pinched in her waist flared out her rear and managed to suggest that Aunt Alexandra was once an hourglass figure from any angle it was formidable the the remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle Gloom that descends when relatives appear but was dispelled when we heard a car turn in the driveway it was attacus home from Montgomery Jem forgetting his dignity ran with me to meet him Jem seized his briefcase and bag I jumped into his arms
• 261:00 - 261:30 felt his vague dry kiss and said did you bring me a book did you know Auntie is here attacus answered both questions in the affirmative how would you like for her to come live with us I said I would like it very much which was a lie but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one cannot do anything about them we felt it was time you children needed well it is like this scout attakus said your aunt is doing me a favor as well as
• 261:30 - 262:00 you all I can't stay here all day with you and the summer is going to be a hot one yes sir I said not understanding a word he said I had an idea however that Aunt Alex sra's appearance on the scene was not so much attakus is doing as hers Auntie had a way of declaring what is best for the family and I suppose her coming to live with us was in that category makome welcomed her Miss mty Atkinson baked a lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight Miss
• 262:00 - 262:30 Stephanie Crawford had long visits with Aunt Alexandra consisting mostly of Miss Stephanie shaking her head and saying uh uh Miss Rachel next door had Auntie over for coffee in the afternoons and Mr Nathan Radley went so far as to come up in the front yard and say he was glad to see her when she settled in with us and life resumed its daily Pace Aunt Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us her missionary Society Refreshments added to her reputation as
• 262:30 - 263:00 a Hostess she did not permit caleria to make the Delicacies required to sustain the society through long reports on Rice Christians she joined and became Secret of the makome amanuensis club to all parties present and participating in the life of the county Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind she had Riverboat boarding school manners let any moral come along and she would uphold it she was born in the objective case she was an incurable gossip when
• 263:00 - 263:30 ant Alexandra went to school self-doubt could not be found in any textbook so she knew not its meaning she was never bored and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative she would arrange advise caution and warn she never let a chance Escape her to point out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to the greater glory of our own a habit that amused jeem rather than annoyed him Auntie better watch how she talks scratch most folks in makome
• 263:30 - 264:00 and they are kin to us Aunt Alexandra in underlining the moral of young Sam merryweather's suicide said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family let a 16-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Auntie would sayit just goes to show you all the Penfield women are flighty everybody in makome it seemed had a streak a drinking streak a gambling streak a Mean Streak a funny streak once When Auntie assured us that
• 264:00 - 264:30 Miss Stephanie Crawford's tendency to mind other people's business was hereditary attakus said sister when you stop to think about it our generation's practically the first in the finch family not to marry its cousins would you say the finches have an incestuous streak Auntie said no that is where we got our small hands and feet I never understood her preoccupation with heredity somewhere I had received the impression that fine folks were people who did the best they could with the
• 264:30 - 265:00 sense they had but aunt Alexandra was of the opinion obliquely expressed that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was that makes the 's fine folks then said Jem the tribe of which burus uul and his Brethren consisted had lived on the same plot of Earth behind the makome dump and had thrived on County welfare money for three generations Aunt Alexandra's Theory had something behind it though makome was an
• 265:00 - 265:30 ancient Town it was 20 m east of Finch's Landing awkwardly Inland for such an old town but makome would have been closer to the river had it not been for the nimble wittedness of one sinkfield who in the dawn of History operated an inn where two Pig Trails met the only Tavern in the territory sinkfield no Patriot served and supplied ammunition to Indians and settlers alike neither knowing or caring whether he was a part of the Alabama
• 265:30 - 266:00 territory or the Creek Nation so long as business was good business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt bib with a view to promoting the newly created County's domestic tranquility dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and their establish its seat of government the surveyors sink Field's guests told their host that he was in the territorial confines of makome County and showed him the probable spot where the county seat would be built had
• 266:00 - 266:30 not sinkfield made a bold stroke to preserve his Holdings makome would have sat in the middle of Winston swamp a place totally devoid of Interest instead makome grew and sprawled out from its hub sinfield's Tavern because sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening induced them to bring forward their maps and charts Lop off a little here add a bit there and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements he sent them packing the
• 266:30 - 267:00 next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddle bags two a piece and one for the governor because its primary reason for existence was government makome was spared the grubbiness that distinguished most Alabama towns its size in the beginning its buildings were solid its Courthouse proud it streets graciously wide mom's proportion of professional people ran high one went there to have his teeth pulled his wagon fixed his heart listened to his money deposited
• 267:00 - 267:30 his soul saved his mules vetted but the ultimate wisdom of sinfield's maneuver is open to question he placed the young town too far away from the only kind of public transportation in those days Riverboat and it took a man from the North End of the county 2 days to travel to make home for store-bought Goods as a result the town remained the same size for a 100 years an island in a patchwork sea of cotton fields and Timberland although
• 267:30 - 268:00 makome was ignored during the war between the states reconstruction Rule and economic ruin forced the town to grow it grew inward new people so rarely settled there the same families married the same families until the members of the community looked faintly alike occasionally someone would return from Montgomery or mobile with an outsider but the result caused only a ripple in the quiet stream of family resemblance things were more or less the
• 268:00 - 268:30 same during my early years there was indeed a cast system in makome but to my mind it worked this way the older citizens the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years years and years were utterly predictable to one another they took for granted attitudes character shadings even gestures as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time thus the dicta no Crawford Minds his own business every third Merryweather is morbid the truth is not in the Dela
• 268:30 - 269:00 Fields all the bufords walk like that we simply guides to daily living never take a check from a Delafield without a discreet call to the bank Miss mty Atkinson shoulder Stoops because she was a Buford if Mrs Grace Merryweather sips Jin out of Lydia e Pinkham bottles it is nothing unusual her mother did the same Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of makome like a hand into a glove but never into the world of gem and me I so
• 269:00 - 269:30 often wondered how she could be atticus's and Uncle Jack's sister that I revived half remembered Tales of changelings and mandre roots that gem had spun long ago these were abs ract speculations for the first month of her stay as she had little to say to Jem or me and we saw her only at meal times and at night before we went to bed it was summer and we were Outdoors of course some afternoons when I would run inside for a drink of water I would find the living room overrun with makome ladies
• 269:30 - 270:00 sipping Whispering Fanning and I would be called John Lise come speak to these ladies when I appeared in the doorway Auntie would look as if she regretted her request I was usually muds splashed or covered with sand speak to your cousin Lily she said one afternoon when she had trapped me in the hall who I said your cousin Lily Brooke said Aunt Alexandra is she our cousin I didn't know that Aunt Alexandra managed to
• 270:00 - 270:30 smile in a way that conveyed a gentle apology to cousin Lily and firm disapproval to me when cousin Lily Brook left I knew I was in for it it was a sad thing that my father father had neglected to tell me about the finch family or to install any Pride into his children she summoned Jem who sat wearily on the sofa beside me she left the room and returned with a purple covered book on which meditations of Joshua s FY sa Clare was stamped in Gold
• 270:30 - 271:00 your cousin wrote this said Aunt Alexandra he was a beautiful character Jem examined the small volume is this the cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long and Alex Andra said how did you know that why attakus said he went round the bend at the University said he tried to shoot the president said cousin Joshua said he wasn't anything but a sewer inspector and tried to shoot him with an old flint lock pistol only it just blew up in his hand attakus said it cost the family
• 271:00 - 271:30 $500 to get him out of that one Aunt Alexandra was standing stiff as a stor that is all she said we will see about this before bedtime I was in Jem's room trying to borrow a book when attakus knocked and entered he sat on the side of jemk bed looked at us soberly then he grinned IR he said he was beginning to preface some things he said with a throaty noise and I thought he must at last be getting old but he looked the
• 271:30 - 272:00 same I do not exactly know how to say this he began well just say it said Jem have we done something our father was actually fidgeting no I just want to explain to you that your aunt Alexandra asked meon you know you are a finch do not you that is what I have been told Jem looked out of the corners of his eyes his voice Rose uncontrollably attacus what is the matter attakus crossed his knees and folded his arms I am trying to tell you
• 272:00 - 272:30 The Facts of Life jemk disgust deepened I know all that stuff he said attakus suddenly grew serious in his lawyer's Voice without a shade of inflection he said your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you and John Louise that you are not from run-ofthe-mill people that you are the product of several Generations gentle breeding attakus paused watching me locate an elusive red bug on my leg gentle breeding he continued when I had
• 272:30 - 273:00 found and scratched it and that you should try to live up to your name attacus persevered in spite of us she asked me to tell you you must try to behave like the little lady and gentleman that you are she wants to talk to you about the family and what it's meant to make home county Through The Years so you'll have some idea of who you are so you might be moved to behave accordingly he concluded at a Gallop stunned J and I looked at each other then at attakus whose collar seemed to
• 273:00 - 273:30 worry him we did not speak to him presently I picked up a comb from Gem's dresser and ran its teeth along the edge stop that noise attakus said his curtness stung me the comb was midway in its journey and I banged it down for no reason I felt myself beginning to cry but I could not stop this was not my father my father never thought these thoughts my father never spoke so Aunt Alexandra had put him up to this somehow
• 273:30 - 274:00 through my tears I saw gem standing in a similar pool of isolation his head cocked to one side there was nowhere to go but I turned to go and met atticus's vest front I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth his watch ticking the faint crackle of his starched shirt the soft sound of his breathing your stomach's growling I said I know it he said you better take some soda I will he said attakus is all this
• 274:00 - 274:30 behaving and stuff going to make things different I mean are you question mark I felt his hand on the back of my head don't you worry about anything he said it is not time to worry when I heard that I knew he had come back to us the blood in my legs began to flow again and I raised my head you really want us to do all that I can't remember everything finches are supposed to do I do not want you to remember it forget it he went to
• 274:30 - 275:00 the door and out of the room shutting the door behind him he nearly slammed it but caught himself at the last minute and closed it softly as Gemini stared the door opened again and attacus peered around his eyebrows were raised his glasses had slipped get more like cousin Joshua every day do not I do you think I will end up costing the family $500 I know now what he was trying to do but attakus was only a man it takes a
• 275:00 - 275:30 woman to do that kind of work chapter 14 although we heard no more about the finch family from Aunt Alex Andra we heard plenty from the town on Saturdays armed with our nickels when Jem permitted me to accompany him he was now positively allergic to my presence when in public we would squirm our way through sweating sidewalk crowds and sometimes hear there is his children or
• 275:30 - 276:00 Yonder is some finches turning to face our accusers we would see only a couple of farmers studying the enema bags in the moo drugstore window or two dumpy country women in straw hats sitting in a Hoover cart they can go loose and rape up the countryside for all of them who run this County care was one obscure observation we met headon from a skinny gentleman when he passed us which reminded me that I had a question to ask attakus what is rape I asked him that night attakus
• 276:00 - 276:30 looked around from behind his paper he was in his chair by the window As We Grew Older Jem and I thought it generous to allow attacus 30 minutes to himself after supper he sighed and said rape was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent well if that is all it is why did cernia dry me up when I asked her what it was attakus looked pensive what is that again well I asked caleria coming from church that day what
• 276:30 - 277:00 it was and she said ask you but I forgot to and now I am asking you his paper was now in his lap again please he said I told him in detail about our trip to church with calpernia attakus seemed to enjoy it but aunt Alexandra who was sitting in a corner quietly sewing put down her embroidery and stared at us you all were coming back from ceria's church that Sunday Jem said yes ma'am she took us I remembered something yesim and she
• 277:00 - 277:30 promised me I could come out to her house some afternoon attakus I will go next Sunday if it is all right can I Cal said she would come get me if you were off in the car you may not and Alexandra said it I wheeled around startled then turned back to attakus in time to catch his Swift glance at her but it was too late I said I did not ask you for a big man attakus could get up and down from a chair faster than anyone I ever knew he was on his feet apologize to your aunt
• 277:30 - 278:00 he said I didn't ask her I asked you attakus turned his head and pinned me to the wall with his good eye his voice was deadly first apologized to your aunt I am sorry auntie I muttered now then he said let us get this clear you do as calper tells you you do as I tell you and as long as your aunt is in this house you will do as she tells you understand I understood pondered a while and concluded that the
• 278:00 - 278:30 only way I could retire with a shred of dignity was to go to the bathroom where I stayed long enough to make them think I had to go returning I lingered in the hall to hear a Fierce discussion going on in the living room through the door I could see Jem on the sofa with a football magazine in front of his face his head turning as if its Pages contained a live tennis match you've got to do something about her auntie was saying you have let things go on too long attakus too long I do not see any
• 278:30 - 279:00 harm in letting her go out there Cal would look after her there as well as she does here who was the her they were talking about my heart sank I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton Penitentiary closing in on me and for the second time in my life I thought of running away immediately attacus it is all right to be soft-hearted you are an easy man but you have a daughter to think of a daughter who is growing up
• 279:00 - 279:30 that is what I'm thinking of and do not try to get around it youve got to face it sooner or later and it might as well be tonight we don't need her now attakus 's voice was even Alexandra kper is not leaving this house until she wants to you may think otherwise but I could not have got along without her all these years she is a faithful member of this family and you will simply have to accept things the way they are besides
• 279:30 - 280:00 sister I do not want you working your head off for us you have no reason to do that we still need Cal as much as we ever did but attakus besides I do not think the children have suffered one bit from her having brought them up if anything she has been harder on them in some ways than a mother would have been she's never let them get away with anything she's never indulged them the way most colored nurses do she tried to bring them up according to her lights and Cal's lights are
• 280:00 - 280:30 pretty good and another thing the children love her I breathed again it wasn't me it was only calpernia they were talking about revived I entered the the living room attakus had retreated behind his newspaper and Aunt Alexandra was worrying her embroidery punk punk punk her needle broke the taut Circle she stopped and pulled the cloth tighter punk punk punk she was Furious Jem got up and patted across the rug he motioned me to follow he led me to his room and
• 280:30 - 281:00 closed the door his face was grave they have been fussing Scout Gem and I fussed a great deal these days but I had never heard of or seen seen anyone quarrel with attakus it was not a comfortable sight scout try not to antagonize Auntie here atticus's remarks were still rankling which made me miss the request in jemk question my feathers rose again you trying to tell me what to do n it is he has got a lot on his mind now without
• 281:00 - 281:30 us worrying him like what attakus did not appear to have anything especially on his mind it is this Tom Robinson case that is worrying him to death I said attakus did not worry about anything besides the case never bothered us except about once a week and then it did not last that is because you cannot hold something in your mind but a little while said gem it is different with grown folks we Dash his maddening superiority was unbearable these days he
• 281:30 - 282:00 didn't want to do anything but read and go off by himself still everything he read he passed along to me but with this difference for formerly because he thought I would like it now for my edification and instruction G crawling hovah gem who do you think you are now I mean it Scout you antagonize auntie and I will I will spank you with that I was gone you damn morphodite I will kill you he was sitting on the bed and it was
• 282:00 - 282:30 easy to grab his front hair and land one on his mouth he slapped me and I tried another left but a punch in the stomach sent me sprawling on the floor it nearly knocked the breath out of me but it did not matter because I knew he was fighting he was fighting me back we were still equals ain't so high and mighty now are you I screamed sailing in again he was still on the bed and I could not get a Firm Stance so I threw myself at him as hard as I could hitting pulling pinching gouging what
• 282:30 - 283:00 had begun as a fist fight became a brawl we were still struggling when attacus separated us that is all he said both of you go to bed right now I said it Jem he was being sent to bed at my bedtime who started it asked attakus in resignation Jem did he was trying to tell me what to do I do not have to mind him now do I attakus smiled let us leave it at this you mind gem whenever he can make you
• 283:00 - 283:30 fair enough Aunt Alexandra was present but silent and when she went down the hall with attakus we heard her say just one of the things I have been telling you about a phrase that United us again ours were adjoining rooms as I shut the door between them Jem said night Scout night I murmured picking my way across the room to turn on the light as I passed the bed I stepped on something warm resilient and rather smooth it was not quite like hard rubber and I had the
• 283:30 - 284:00 Sensation that it was alive I also heard it move I switched on the light and looked at the floor by the bed whatever I had stepped on was gone I tapped on jemk door what he said how does a snake feel sort of rough cold Dusty why I think there is one under my bed can you come look are you being funny Jem opened the door he was in his pajama bottoms I noticed not without satisfaction that
• 284:00 - 284:30 the mark of my Knuckles was still on his mouth when he saw I meant what I said he said if you think I'm going to put my face down to a snake you have got another thing coming hold on a minute he went to the kitchen and fetched the broom you better get up on the bed he said you reckon it is really one I asked this was an occasion our houses had no cellers they were built on stone blocks a few feet above the ground and the entry of reptiles was not unknown but
• 284:30 - 285:00 was not commonplace Miss Rachel haverford's excuse for a glass of neat whiskey every morning was that she never got over the Fright of finding a rattlesnake coiled in her bedroom closet on her washing when she went to hang up her negl gem made a tentative swipe under the bed I looked over the foot to see if a snake would come out none did gem made a deeper swipe do snakes grunt it is not a snake Jem said it is somebody suddenly
• 285:00 - 285:30 a filthy Brown package shot from under the bed Jem raised the broom and missed Dill's head by an inch when it appeared God Almighty jemk voice was reverent we watched Dill emerge by degrees he was a tight fit he stood up and eased his shoulders turned his feet in their ankle sockets rubbed the back of his neck his circulation restored he said hey Jem petitioned God again I was speechless I am about to perish said Dill got anything to eat in a dream I went to the
• 285:30 - 286:00 kitchen I brought him back some milk and half a pan of cornbread left over from supper Dill devoured it chewing with his front teeth as was his custom I finally found my voice how did you get here by an involved route refreshed by food Dill recited this narrative having been bound in Chains and left to die in the basement there were basements in Meridian by his new father who disliked him and secretly kept alive on Raw field
• 286:00 - 286:30 peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help the good man poked a bushel pod by pod through the ventilator Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall still in wrist manacles he wandered 2 miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel he traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County Alabama just across the river
• 286:30 - 287:00 from makome he walked the rest of the way how did you get here asked Jem he had taken $13 from his mother's purse caught the 9:00 from Meridian and got off at makome Junction he had walked 10 or 11 of the 14 miles to makome off the highway in the scrub bushes lest the authorities be seeking him and had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon he had been under the bed for 2
• 287:00 - 287:30 hours he thought he had heard us in the dining room and the clink of forks on plates nearly drove him crazy he thought Jim and I would never go to bed he had considered emerging and helping me beat gem as gem had grown far taller but he knew Mr Finch would break it up soon so he thought it best to stay where he was he was worn out dirty beyond belief and home they must not know you are here said Jem we would know if they were looking for you here is the text to
• 287:30 - 288:00 convert think they are still searching all the picture shows in Meridian Dill grinned you ought to let your mother know where you are said Jem you ought to let her know you are here Dill's eyes flickered at Jem and Jem looked at the floor then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood he went out of the room and down the hall attakus his voice was distant can you come here a minute sir beneath its sweat streak dirt Dill's face went white I
• 288:00 - 288:30 felt sick attakus was in the doorway he came to the middle of the room and stood with his hands in his pockets looking down at Dill I finally found my voice it's okay Dill when he wants you to know something he tells you Dill looked at me I mean it is all right I said you know he would not bother you you know you are not scared of attakus I am not scared Dill muttered just hungry I will bet atticus's voice had its usual Pleasant
• 288:30 - 289:00 dryness Scout we can do better than a pan of cold cornbread cannot we you fill this fellow up and when I get back we will see what we can see Mr Finch do not tell Aunt Rachel do not make me go back please sir I will run off again exclamation mark wo son said attakus nobody is about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon I am just going over to tell Miss Rachel you are here and ask her if you could spend the night with us you would like that would not
• 289:00 - 289:30 you and for goodness sake put some of the county back where it belongs the soil erosion is bad enough as it is Dill stared at my father 's retreating figure he's trying to be funny I said he means take a bath see there I told you he would not bother you Jem was standing in a corner of the room looking like the traitor he was Dill I had to tell him he said you cannot run 300 miles off without your mother knowing we left him
• 289:30 - 290:00 without a word dill ate and ate and ate he hadn't eaten since last night he used all his money for a ticket boarded the train as he had done many times cooly chatted with the conductor to whom Dill was a familiar sight but he had not the nerve to invoke the rule on small children traveling a distance alone if you have lost your money the conductor will lend you enough for dinner and your father will pay him back at the end of the line Dill made his way through the
• 290:00 - 290:30 leftovers and was reaching for a can of pork and beans in the pantry When Miss Rachel's due Jesus went off in the hall he shivered like a rabbit he bore with fortitude her wait till I get you home your folks are out of their minds worrying was quite calm during that's all the Harris in you coming out smiled at her reckon you can stay one night and return the hug at long last bestowed upon Him attakus pushed up his glasses and rubbed his face your father's tired
• 290:30 - 291:00 said Aunt Alexandra her first words in hours it seemed she had been there but I suppose she was struck dumb most of the time you children get to bed now we left them in the dining room attakus still mopping his face from rape to Riot to runaways we heard him chuckle I wonder what the next 2 hours will bring since things appeared to have worked out pretty well dill and I decided to be civil to Jem besides Dill had to sleep with him so we
• 291:00 - 291:30 might as well speak to him I put on my pajamas read for a while and found myself suddenly unable to keep my eyes open Dill and Jem were quiet when I turned off my reading lamp there was no strip of light under the door to Jem's room I must have slept a long time for when I was punched awake the room was dim with the light of the setting Moon move over Scout he thought he had to I mumbled don't stay mad with him Dill got
• 291:30 - 292:00 in bed beside me I ain't he said I just wanted to sleep with you are you awake by this time I was but lazily so why did you do it no answer I said why did you run off was he really hateful like you said nav did not you all build that boat like you wrote you were going to he just said we would we never did I raised up on my elbow facing Dill's outline it is no reason to run off they do not get around to doing what
• 292:00 - 292:30 they say they are going to do half the time that wasn't it he they just wasn't interested in me this was the weirdest reason for flight I had ever heard how how come well they stayed gone all the time and when they were home even they would get off in a room by themselves what did they do in there nothing just sitting and reading but they did not want me with them I pushed the pillow to the headboard and sat up you know something I was fixing to run off tonight because there they all were you
• 292:30 - 293:00 do not want them around you all the time Dill Dill breathed his patient breath a half sigh good night attacus has gone all day and sometimes half the night and often the legislature and I do not know what you do not want them around all the time Dill you could not you could not do anything if they were that is not it as Dill explained I found myself wondering what life would be if gem were different even from what he was now what I would do if attacus did not feel the necessity
• 293:00 - 293:30 of my presence help and advice why he couldn't get along a day without me even calpernia couldn't get along unless I was there there they needed me Dill you are not telling me right your folks could not do without you they must be just mean to you tell you what to do about that Dill's voice went on steadily in the darkness the thing is what I am trying to say is they do get on a lot better without me I cannot help them any
• 293:30 - 294:00 they are not mean they buy me everything I want but it is now you've got it go play with it you have got a room full of things I got you that book so go read it Dill tried to deepen his voice you are not a boy boys get out and play baseball with other boys they do not hang around the house worrying their folks Dill's voice was his own again oh they are not mean they kiss you and hug you good night and good morning and goodbye and tell you they love you Scout let us get
• 294:00 - 294:30 us a baby where there was a man Dill had heard of who had a boat that he rode across to a foggy island where all these babies were you could order one that is a lie Auntie said God drops them down the chimney at least that is what I think she said for once Auntie's diction had not been too clear well that is not so you get babies from each other but there is this man too he has all these babies just waiting to wake up he
• 294:30 - 295:00 breathes life into them Dill was off again beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head he could read two books to my one but he preferred the magic of his own inventions he could add and subtract faster than lightning but he preferred his own Twilight world a world where babies slept waiting to be gathered like morning lies he was slowly talking himself to sleep and taking me with him but in the quietness of his Foggy Island There Rose The Faded image
• 295:00 - 295:30 of a gray house with sad Brown doors Dill hm why do you reckon bu Radley's never run off Dill sighed along sigh and turned away from me maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to chapter 15 after many telephone calls much pleading on behalf of the defendant and a long forgiving letter from his mother it was decided that Dill could stay we had a week of Peace together
• 295:30 - 296:00 after that little it seemed a nightmare was upon us it began one evening after supper Dill was over Aunt Alexandra was in her chair in the corner attacus was in his Jem and I were on the floor reading it had been a Placid week I had minded Auntie gem had outgrown The Treehouse but helped dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it Dill had Hit Upon A foolproof plan to make bu Radley come out at no cost to ourselves which was to place a trail of lemon
• 296:00 - 296:30 drops from the back door to the front yard and he would follow it like an ant there was a knock on the front door Jem answered it and said was Mr hect Tate well ask him to come in said attakus I already did there's some men outside in the yard they want you to come out in makome grown men stood outside in the front yard for only two reasons death and politics I wondered who had died Gem and I went to the front door but attakus
• 296:30 - 297:00 called go back in the house gem turned out the living room lights and pressed his nose to a window screen Aunt Alexandra protested just just for a second Auntie let's see who it is he said dill and I took another window a crowd of men was standing around attakus they all seemed to be talking at once moving him to the county jail tomorrow Mr Tate was saying I don't look for any trouble but I can't guarantee there won't be any don't be
• 297:00 - 297:30 foolish heck attacus said this is makome said I was just uneasy heck we have gotten one postponement of this case just to make sure there is nothing to be uneasy about this is Saturday attakus said trial will probably be Monday you can keep him one night can't you I do not think anybody in makome will begrudge me a client with times this hard there was a murmur of Glee that died suddenly when Mr Link de said nobody around here is up to anything it is that old sarum bunch I
• 297:30 - 298:00 am worried about cannot you get a what is it heck change of venue said Mr Tate not much point in that now is it attakus said something inaudible I turned to Jem who waved me to silence besides attacus was saying you are not scared of that crowd are you know how they do when they get shinnied up they do not usually drink on Sunday they go to church most of the day attakus said this is a special occasion though they
• 298:00 - 298:30 murmured and buzzed until Auntie said if Jem did not turn on the living room lights he would disgrace the family Jem didn't hear her don't see why you touched it in the first place Mr linkd was saying you've got everything to lose from this attacus I mean everything do you really think so this was atticus's dangerous question do you really think you want to move there Scout Bam Bam Bam and the checkerboard was swept clean of my men do you really think that son then
• 298:30 - 299:00 read this gem would struggle the rest of an evening through the speeches of Henry W Grady link that boy might go to the chair but he is not going till the truth is told atticus's voice was even and you know what the truth is there was a murmur among the group of men made more ominous when attakus moved back to the bottom front step and the men Drew nearer to him suddenly gem screamed attacus the telephone is ringing the men
• 299:00 - 299:30 jumped a little and Scattered they were people we saw every day merchants in Town Farmers doctor Reynolds was there so was Mr Avery well answer it son called attacus laughter broke them up when attakus switched on the overhead light in the living room he found gem at the window pale except for the Vivid Mark of the screen on his nose why on Earth are you all sitting in the dark he asked Jem watched him go to his chair and pick up the evening paper
• 299:30 - 300:00 I sometimes think attacus subjected every crisis of his life to tranquil evaluation behind the Mobile Register the Birmingham News and the Montgomery Advertiser they were after you weren't they Jim went to him they wanted to get you didn't they adus lowered the paper and gazed at Jem what have you been reading he asked then he said gently no son those were our friends it wasn't it a gang gem was looking from the corners of his eyes attakus tried to stifle a
• 300:00 - 300:30 smile but did not make it no we do not have mobs in that nonsense in makome I have never heard of a gang in makome Klux got after some Catholics one time never heard of any Catholics in makome either said attakus you were confusing that with something else way back about 1920 there was a clan but it was a political organization more than anything besides they could not find anybody to scare they paraded by Mr Sam
• 300:30 - 301:00 Levy's house one night but Sam just stood on his porch and told them things had come to a pretty pass he had sold them the very sheep on their backs Sam made them so ashamed of themselves they went away the Levy family met all criteria for being fine folks they did the best they could with the sense they had and they had been living on the same plot of ground in makome for five generations the Klux is gone said attakus it will never come back I walked
• 301:00 - 301:30 home with dill and returned in time to overh here attacus saying to Auntie in favor of Southern Womanhood as much as anybody but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life a pronouncement that made me suspect they had been fussing again I sought Jem and found him in his room on the bed deep in thought have they been at it I asked sort of she won't let him alone about Tom Robinson she almost said attakus was
• 301:30 - 302:00 disgracing the family Scout I'm scared scared of what scared about attakus somebody might hurt him Jem preferred to remain m my serious all he would say to my questions was go on and leave him alone next day was Sunday in the interval between Sunday school and church when the congregation stretched its legs I saw attacus standing in the yard with another knot of men Mr hect Tate was present and I wondered if he had seen the light he never went to
• 302:00 - 302:30 church even Mr Underwood was there Mr Underwood had no use for any organization but the makome Tribune of which he was the sole owner editor and printer his days were spent at his linotype where he refreshed himself occasionally from an everpresent gallon jug of cherry wine he rarely gathered news people brought it to him it was said that he made up every edition of the makome Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype this was believable something
• 302:30 - 303:00 must have been up to haul Mr Underwood out I caught attacus coming in the door and he said that they had moved Tom Robinson to the makome jail he also said more to himself than to me that if they had kept him there in the first place there would not have been any fuss I watched him take his seat on the third row from the front and I heard him Rumble Nearer My God to thee some notes behind the rest of us he never sat with
• 303:00 - 303:30 Auntie Jem and me he liked to be by himself in church the fake piece that prevailed on Sundays was made more irritating by Aunt Alexandra presence attacus would flee to his office directly after dinner where if we sometimes looked in on him we would find him sitting back in his swivel chair reading Aunt Alexandra composed herself for a 2-hour nap and dared us to make any noise in the yard the neighborhood was resting Jem in his old age had taken
• 303:30 - 304:00 to his room with a stack of football magazines so dill and I spent our Sundays creeping around in deer's pasture shooting on Sundays was prohib hibited so dill and I kicked Jem's football around the pasture for a while which was no fun Dill asked if I would like to have a poke at bu Radley I said I did not think it would be nice to bother him and spent the rest of the afternoon filling Dill in on last Winter's events he was considerably impressed we
• 304:00 - 304:30 parted at supper time and after our meal Jem and I were settling down to a routine evening when attakus did something that interested us he came into the living room carrying a long electrical extension cord there was a light bulb on the end I am going out for a while he said you folks will be in bed when I come back so I will say good night now with that he put his hat on and went out the back door he is taking the car said Jem our father had a few peculiarities one was he never ate
• 304:30 - 305:00 desserts another was that he lik to walk as far back as I could remember there was always a Chevrolet in excellent condition in in the carouse and Atticus put many miles on it in business trips but in makome he walked to and from his office four times a day covering about 2 miles he said his only exercise was walking in makome if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind it was correct to believe one's mind incapable
• 305:00 - 305:30 of definite purpose later on I B my aunt and brother good night and was well into a book when I heard gem rattling around in his room his go to bed noises were so familiar to me that I knocked on his door why ain't you going to bed I am going downtown for a while he was changing his pants why it is almost 10:00 gem he knew it but he was going anyway then I am going with you if you say no you are not I am going anyway here gem saw that he would have to fight
• 305:30 - 306:00 me to keep me home and I suppose he thought a fight would antagonize Auntie so he gave in with little Grace I dressed quickly we waited until Auntie's light went out and we walked quietly down the back steps there was no moon tonight Dill will want to come I whispered so he will said Jem gloomily we leaped over the driveway wall cut through Miss Rachel's side yard and went to Dill's window Jem whistled Bob White
• 306:00 - 306:30 Dill's face appeared at the screen disappeared and five minutes later he unhooked the screen and crawled out an old campaigner he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk what is up gems got the lookarounds an Affliction caleria said all boys caught at his age I've just got this feeling Jem said just this feeling we went by Mrs doose's house standing empty and shuddered her Celia grown up in Weeds and Johnson grass there were eight more houses to the post
• 306:30 - 307:00 office Corner the south side of the square was deserted giant monkey puzzle bushes bristled on each corner and between them an iron Hitching Rail glistened under the street lights a light Shone in the county toilet otherwise that side of the courthouse was dark a larger square of stores surrounded the courthouse Square dim lights burned from deep within them atticus's office was in the courthouse when he began his law practice but after
• 307:00 - 307:30 several years of it he moved to quieter quarters in the makome Bank building when we rounded the corner of the square we saw the car parked in front of front of the bank he is in there said Jem but he wasn't his office was reached by a long hallway looking down the hall we should have seen attakus Finch Attorney at Law in small sober letters against the light from behind his door it was dark Jem peered in the bank door to make sure he turned
• 307:30 - 308:00 the knob the door was locked letun go up the street maybe he is visiting Mr Underwood Mr Underwood not only ran the makome Tribune off office he lived in it that is above it he covered the courthouse and jailhouse news simply by looking out his upstairs window the office building was on the northwest corner of the square and to reach it we had to pass the jail the makome jail was the most venerable and hideous of the County's buildings attakus said it was
• 308:00 - 308:30 like something cousin Joshua Saint Claire might have designed it was certainly someone's dream starkly out of place in a town of square-faced stores and steep roofed houses the makome jail was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses its fantasy was heightened by its red brick facade and the thick steel bars at its ecclesiastical Windows it stood on no Lonely Hill but was wedged between
• 308:30 - 309:00 Tindle hardware store and the makome Tribune office the jail was mak's only Conversation Piece its detractor said it looked like a Victorian privy its supporters said it gave the town a good solid respectable look and no stranger would ever suspect that it was full of as we walked up the sidewalk we saw a solitary light burning in the distance that is funny said Jem jail does not have an outside light looks like it is over the door said Dill a
• 309:00 - 309:30 long extension cord ran Between the Bars of a second floor window and down the side of the building in the light from its Bare Bulb attakus was sitting propped against the front door he was sitting in one of his office chairs and he was reading oblivious of the night bugs dancing over his head I made to run but Jem caught me don't go to him he said he might not like it he's all right let us go home I just wanted to see where he was we were
• 309:30 - 310:00 taking a short cut across the square when four Dusty cars came in from the Meridian Highway moving slowly in a line they went around the square past the Bank building and stopped in front of the jail nobody got out we saw attakus look up from his newspaper he closed it folded it deliberately dropped it in his lap and pushed his hat to the back of his head he seemed to be expecting them come on whispered Jem we Streed across the square across the street until we
• 310:00 - 310:30 were in the shelter of the Jitney jungle door Jem peaked up the sidewalk we can get closer he said we ran to Tindle Hardware door Dash near enough at the same time discreet in ones and twos men got out of the cars Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door attakus remained where he was the men HIIT him from view he and there Mr Finch a man said he is we heard attakus answer
• 310:30 - 311:00 and he is asleep don't wake him up in obedience to my father there followed what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation the men talked in near Whispers you know what we want another man said get aside from the door Mr Finch you can turn around and go home again Walter attakus said pleasantly hect Tate is around somewhere the hell he is said another man hex bunch is so deep in the woods they won't get out until
• 311:00 - 311:30 morning indeed why so called them off on a snipe hunt was the succinct answer did not you think that Mr Finch thought about it but did not believe it well then my father's voice was still the same that changes things doesn't it it do another deep voice said its owner was a shadow do you really think so this was the second time I heard attacus asked that question in two days and it meant somebody's man would get jumped
• 311:30 - 312:00 this was too good to miss I broke away from Gem and ran as fast as I could to attakus Gem shrieked and tried to catch me but I had a lead on on him and Dill I pushed my way through dark smelly bodies and burst into the circle of light he attakus I thought he would have a fine surprise but his face killed my joy a flash of plain fear was going out of his eyes but returned when dill and Jem wriggled into the light there was a smell of stale whiskey and pig pin about
• 312:00 - 312:30 and when I glanced around I discovered that these men Were Strangers they were not the people I saw last night hot andar M shot through me I had leaped triumphantly into a ring of people I had never seen before attakus got up from his chair but he was moving slowly like an old man he put the newspaper down very carefully adjusting its creases with lingering fingers they were trembling a little go home Jem he said take Scout and Dill home we were
• 312:30 - 313:00 accustomed to prompt if not always cheerful acquiescence to atticus' instructions but from the way he stood gem was not thinking of budging go home I said Jem shook his head as attacus fists went to his hips so did gems and as they faced each other I could see little resemblance between them Gem's soft brown hair and eyes his oval face and snug fitting ears were our mothers contrasting oddly with atticus's graying black hair and square cut features but
• 313:00 - 313:30 they were somehow alike Mutual Defiance made them alike son I said go home Jem shook his head I will send him home a Burly man said and grabbed gem roughly by the collar he yanked jeem nearly off his feet don't you touch him I kicked the man swiftly barefooted I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain I intended to kick his shin but aimed too high that will do Scout attakus put his hand on my shoulder don't kick folks no he said as I was
• 313:30 - 314:00 pleading justification ain't nobody going to do gem that way I said all right Mr Finch get him out of here someone growled you got 15 seconds to get them out of here in the midst of this strange assembly attakus stood trying to make gem mind him I am not going was his steady answer to atticus's threats requests and finally please gem take them home I was getting a bit tired of that but felt Jem had his own reasons for doing as he did in view of his
• 314:00 - 314:30 prospects once attacus did get him home I looked around the crowd it was a summer's night but the men were dressed most of them in overalls and denim shirts buttoned up to the collars I thought they must be cold-natured as their sleeves were unrolled and buttoned at the Cuffs some wore hats pulled firmly down over their ears they were Sullen looking sleepy eyed men who seemed unused to late hours I sought once more for a familiar face and at the
• 314:30 - 315:00 center of the semi circle I found one hey Mr Cunningham the man did not hear me it seemed hey Mr Cunningham how is your entailment getting along Mr Walter Cunningham's legal Affairs were well known to me attakus had once described them at length the big man blinked and hooked his thumbs in his overall straps he seemed uncomfortable he cleared his throat and looked away my friendly Overture had fallen flat Mr Cunningham
• 315:00 - 315:30 wore no hat and the top half of his forehead was white in contrast to his sun-scorched face which led me to believe that he wore one most days he shifted his feet clad in heavy work shoes don't you remember me Mr Cunningham I am John Lis Finch you brought us some hickory nuts one time remember I began to sense the futility one feels when unacknowledged by a chance acquaintance I go to school with Walter I began again he is your boy is he not
• 315:30 - 316:00 ain't he Sir Mr Cunningham was moved to a faint nod he did know me after all he is in my grade I said and he does right well he is a good boy I added a real nice boy we brought him home for dinner one time maybe he told you about me I beat him up one time but he was really nice about it tell him hey for me won't you attakus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in not about what you were interested in Mr Cunningham
• 316:00 - 316:30 displayed no interest in his son so I tackled his entailment once more in a last ditch effort to make him feel at home entailments are bad I was advising him when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation the men were all looking at me some had their mouths half open attacus had stopped poking at gem they were standing together beside Dill their attention amounted to Fascination atticus's mouth even was half open an
• 316:30 - 317:00 attitude he had once described as UNC our eyes met and he shut it well attakus I was just saying to Mr cunning that entailments are bad and all that but you said not to worry it takes a long time sometimes that you all would ride it out together I was slowly drying up wondering what idiocy I had committed entailment seemed all right enough for living room talk I began to feel sweat gathering at the edges of my hair I
• 317:00 - 317:30 could stand anything but a bunch of people looking at me they were quite still what is the matter I asked attakus said nothing I looked around and up at Mr Cunningham whose face was equally impassive then he did a peculiar thing he squatted down and took me by both shoulders I will tell him you said hey little lady he said then he straightened up and waved a big paw letun clear out he called let us get going boys as they had come in ones and twos the men
• 317:30 - 318:00 shuffled back to their ramshackle cars doors slammed engines coughed and they were gone I turned to attakus but attacus had gone to the jail and was leaning against it with his face to the wall I went to him and pulled his sleeve can we go home now he nodded produced his handkerchief gave his face a going over and blew his nose violently Mr Finch a soft husky voice came from the darkness above they gone attakus stepped
• 318:00 - 318:30 back and looked up they have gone he said get some sleep Tom they won't bother you anymore from a different direction another voice cut crisply through the night you are damn totin they will not had you covered all the time attacus Mr Underwood and a double barreled shotgun were leaning out his window above the makome Tribune office it was long past my bedtime and I was growing quite tired it seemed that attakus and Mr Underwood would talk for
• 318:30 - 319:00 the rest of the night Mr Underwood out the window and attakus up at him finally attakus returned Switched Off the Light Above the jail door and picked up his chair can I carry it for you Mr Finch asked D he had not said a word the whole time why thank you son walking toward the office dill and I fell into step behind attakus and Jem Dill was incumbered by the chair and his Pace was slower attakus and Jem were well ahead of us and I assumed that attakus was
• 319:00 - 319:30 giving him hell for not going home but I was wrong as they passed under a street light attakus reached out and massaged Jem's hair his one gesture of affection chapter 16 Jem heard me he thrust his head around the connecting door as he came to my bed atticus's light flashed on we stayed where we were until it went off we heard him turn over and we waited until he was still again
• 319:30 - 320:00 gem took me to his room and put me in bed beside him try to go to sleep he said it will be all over after tomorrow maybe we had come in quietly so as not to wake Auntie attakus killed the engine in the driveway and coasted to the carh house we went in the back door and to our rooms without a word I was very tired and was drifting into sleep when the memory of attakus calmly folding his newspaper and pushing back his hat became attakus standing in the middle of
• 320:00 - 320:30 an empty waiting Street pushing up his glasses the full meaning of the night's events hit me and I began crying gem was awfully nice about it for once he didn't remind me that people nearly 9 years old didn't do things like that everybody's appetite was delicate this morning except gems he ate his way through three eggs attacus watched in Frank admiration Aunt Alexandra sipped coffee and radiated waves of disapproval
• 320:30 - 321:00 children who slipped out at night were a disgrace to the family attakus said he was right glad his disgraces had come along but Auntie said nonsense Mr Underwood was there all the time you know it is a funny thing about Braxton said attakus he despises Negroes will not have one near him local opinion held Mr Underwood to be an intense profane little man whose father in a fay fit of humor christened Braxton brag a name Mr Underwood had done his best to live down
• 321:00 - 321:30 attakus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow and steady drinkers calpernia was serving Aunt Alexandra more coffee and she shook her head at what I thought was a pleading winning look you are still too little she said I will tell you when you are not I said it might help my stomach all right she said and got a cup from the sideboard she poured one tablespoonful of coffee into it and filled the cup to the brim with milk I thanked her by
• 321:30 - 322:00 sticking out my tongue at it and looked up to catch Auntie's warning frown but she was frowning at attakus she waited until carneia was in the kitchen then she said don't talk like that in front of them talk like what in front of whom he asked like that in front of calpernia you said Braxton Underwood despises Negroes right in front of her well I am sure Cal knows it everybody in makome knows it I was beginning to notice a
• 322:00 - 322:30 subtle change in my father these days that came out when he talked with Aunt Alexandra it was a quiet digging in never outright irit iritation there was a faint starchiness in his voice when he said anything fit to say at the tables fit to say in front of cernia she knows what she means to this family I do not think it is a good habit attakus it encourages them you know how they talk among themselves everything that happens in this town is out to the quarters before
• 322:30 - 323:00 Sundown my father put down his knife I do not know of any law that says they cannot talk maybe if we did not give them so much to talk about they would be quiet why don't you drink your coffee Scout I was playing in it with the spoon I thought Mr Cunningham was a friend of ours you told me a long time ago he was he still is but last night he wanted to hurt you attakus placed his Fork beside his knife and pushed his plate aside Mr
• 323:00 - 323:30 Cunningham's basically a good man he said he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us Jim spoke don't call that a blind spot he had killed you last night when he first went there he might have hurt me a little attakus conceded but son you will understand folks a little better when you are older a mob is always made up of people no matter what Mr Cunningham was part of a mob last night but he was still a man every mob in every little southern town is
• 323:30 - 324:00 always made up of people you know does not say much for them does it I will say not said Jem so it took an 8-year-old child to bring them to their senses did not it said attakus that proves something that a gang of wild animals can be stopped simply because they are still human hm maybe we need a police force of children you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute that was enough well I hoped Jem would understand folks a
• 324:00 - 324:30 little better when he was older I would not first day Walter comes back to school will be his last I affirmed you will not touch him attakus said flatly I do not want either of you bearing a grudge about this thing no matter what happens you see do not you said Aunt Alexandra what comes of things like this don't say I haven't told you atus said he would never say that pushed out his chair and got up there is a day ahead so excuse me Jem
• 324:30 - 325:00 I do not want you and Scout downtown today please as attakus departed Dill came bounding down the hall into the dining room room it is all over town this morning he announced all about how we held off a hundred folks with our bare hands Aunt Alexandra stared him to silence it was not a hundred folks she said and nobody held anybody off it was just a nest of those cunninghams drunk and disorderly a auntie that is just Dill's way said Jem he signaled us to
• 325:00 - 325:30 follow him you all stay in the yard today she said as we made our way to the front porch it was like Saturday people from the South End of the county passed our house in a leisurely but steady stream Mr Dolphus Raymond lurched by on his thorough bread don't see how he stays in the saddle murmured Jem how can you stand to get drunk before 8 in the morning a wagonload of ladies rattled past us they wore cotton Sun Bonnets and dresses with long sleeves a bearded man
• 325:30 - 326:00 in a wool hat drove them Yonder is some menites Jem said to Dill they do not have buttons they lived deep in the woods did most of their trading across the river and rarely came to make dill was interested they have all got blue eyes gem explained and the men cannot shave after they marry their wives like for them to tickle them with their beards Mr xbps rode by on a mule and waved to us he is a funny man said gem X
• 326:00 - 326:30 is his name not his initial he was in court one time and they asked him his name he said Phillips clerk asked him to spell it and he said X asked him again and he said X they kept at it till he wrote x on a sheet of paper and held it up for everybody to see they asked him where he got his name and he said that is the way his folks signed him up when he was born as the county went by us gem gave Dill the histories and general
• 326:30 - 327:00 attitudes of the more prominent figures Mr tensaw Jones voted the straight prohibition ticket miss Emily Davis dipped snuff in private Mr Byron Waller could play the violin Mr Jake Slade was cutting his third set of teeth a wagonload of unusually stern-faced citizens appeared when they pointed to miss motty Atkinson's yard a blaze with summer flowers Miss motty herself came out on the porch there was an odd thing about Miss motty on her porch she was
• 327:00 - 327:30 too far away for us to see her features clearly but we could always catch her mood by the way she stood she was now standing ing arms a Kimbo her shoulders drooping a little her head cocked to one side her glasses winking in the sunlight we knew she wore a grin of the uttermost wickedness the driver of the wagon slowed down his mules and a shrill voiced woman called out he that cometh in vanity departeth in darkness Miss mty answered a merry heart maketh a cheerful
• 327:30 - 328:00 countenance I guessed that the foot washers thought that the devil was quoting scripture for his own purposes as the driver spe his mules why they objected to miss mot's yard was a mystery heightened in my mind because for someone who spent all the daylight hours Outdoors Miss M's command of scripture was formidable you going to court this morning asked Jem we had strolled over I am not she said I have no business with the court this morning aren't you going
• 328:00 - 328:30 down to watch asked Dill I am not it is morbid watching a poor devil on trial for his life look at all those folks it is like a Roman Carnival they have to try him in public Miss mty I said would not be right if they did not I am quite aware of that she said just because it is public I do not have to go do I miss Stephanie Crawford came by she wore a hat and gloves um she said look at all those folks you would think William
• 328:30 - 329:00 Jennings Brian was speaking and where are you going Stephanie inquired Miss motty to the Jitney jungle Miss motty said she had never seen Miss Stephanie go to the Jitney jungle in a hat in her life well said Miss Stephanie I thought I might just look in at the courthouse to see what attakus is up to better be careful he does not hand you a subpoena we asked Miss motty to elucidate she said Miss Stephanie seemed to know so much about the case she might
• 329:00 - 329:30 as well be called on to testify we held off until noon when attakus came home to dinner and said they had spent the morning picking the jury after dinner we stopped by for dill and went to town it was a Gala occasion there was no room at the public Hitching Rail for another animal mules and wagons were parked under every available tree the courthouse Square was covered with picnic parties sitting on newspapers washing down biscuit and syrup with warm
• 329:30 - 330:00 milk from fruit jars some people were gnawing on cold chicken and cold fried pork chops the more affluent chased their food with drugstore Coca-Cola in bulb-shaped soda glasses greasy faed children popped the whip through the crowd and babies lunched at their mother's breasts in a far corner of the square the Negroes sat quietly in the Sun dining on sardines crackers and the more Vivid flavors of nahi cola Mr Dolphus Raymond sat with them Jem said Dill he's drinking out of
• 330:00 - 330:30 a sack Mr Dolphus Raymond seemed to be so doing two yellow drugstore straws ran from his mouth to the depths of a brown paper bag ain't never seen anybody do that murmured Dill how does he keep what is in it in it Jem giggled he has got a cooca bottle full of whiskey in there that is so is not to upset the ladies you will see him sip it all afternoon he will step out for a while and fill it back up why is he sitting with the
• 330:30 - 331:00 colored folks always does he likes them better than he likes us I reckon lives by himself way down near the county line he has got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed children show you some of them if we see them he doesn't look like trash said Dill he is not he owns all one side of the riverbank down there and he is from a real old family to boot then why does he do like that that is just his way said Jem they say he never
• 331:00 - 331:30 got over his wedding he was supposed to marry one of the dash the Spencer ladies I think they were going to have a huge wedding but they did not after the rehearsal the bride went upstairs and blew her head off shotgun she pulled the trigger with her toes did they ever know why no said Jem nobody ever knew quite why but Mr Dolphus they said it was because she found out about his colored woman he reckoned he could keep her and get married too he has been sort of drunk ever since
• 331:30 - 332:00 you know though he is real good to those children gem I asked what is a mixed child half white half colored you have seen them Scout you know that red kinky headed one that delivers for the drugstore he is half white they are really sad sad how come they do not belong anywhere colored folks will not have them because they are half white white folks will not have them because they are colored so they are just inet
• 332:00 - 332:30 do not belong anywhere but Mr Dolphus now they say he has shipped two of his up north they do not mind them up north Yonder is one of them a small boy clutching a negro woman's hand walked toward us he looked all negro to me he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth sometimes he would skip happily and the Negro woman tugged his hand to make him stop Jem waited until they passed us that is one of the
• 332:30 - 333:00 little ones he said how can you tell asked Dill he looked black to me you can't sometimes not unless you know who they they are but he is half Raymond all right but how can you tell I asked I told you Scout you just have to know who they are well how do you know we are not Negroes Uncle Jack Finch says we really do not know he says as far as he can trace back the finches we are not but for all he knows we might have come straight out of Ethiopia during the Old
• 333:00 - 333:30 Testament well if we came out during the Old Testament it is too long ago to matter that is what I thought said Jem but around here once you have a drop of negro blood that makes you all black hey look some invisible signal had made the lunchers on the Square rise and Scatter bits of newspaper cellophane and wrapping paper children came to mothers babies were cradled on hips as men in sweat stained hats collected their families and herded them through the
• 333:30 - 334:00 courthous doors in the far corner of the square the Negroes and Mr Dolphus Raymond stood up and dusted their breaches there were few women and children among them which seemed to dispel the holiday mood they waited patiently at the doors behind the white families let us go in said Dill no we better wait until they get in attakus might not like it if he sees us said Jem the makome county courthouse was faintly reminiscent of Arlington in one respect
• 334:00 - 334:30 the concrete pillars supporting its South roof were too heavy for their light burden the pillars were all that remained standing when the original Courthouse burned in 1,856 another Courthouse was built around them it is better to say built in spite of them but for the South porch the makome county courthouse was early Victorian presenting an unoffensive Vista when seen from the north from the
• 334:30 - 335:00 other side however Greek Revival columns clashed with a big 19th century Clock Tower housing a Rusty unreliable instrument A View indicating a people determined to preserve every physical scrap of the past to reach the courtroom on the second floor one passed sundry sunless County cubby holes the tax assessor the tax collector the county clerk the county solicitor the circuit clerk the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying
• 335:00 - 335:30 record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine it was necessary to turn on the lights in the daytime there was always a film of dust on the rough floorboards the inhabitants of these offices were creatures of their environment little gray-faced men they seemed Untouched by wind or sun we knew there was a crowd but we had not bargained for the multitudes in the first floor hallway I got separated from Jem and Dill but made my way toward the wall by
• 335:30 - 336:00 the stairwell knowing gem would come for me eventually I found myself in the middle of the idler Club CL and made myself as unobtrusive as possible this was a group of white shirted khaki trousered suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their Twilight days doing the same on Pine benches under the Live Oaks on the Square attentive critics of Courthouse business attakus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice
• 336:00 - 336:30 from long years of observation normally they were the Court's only Spectators and today they seemed resentful of the interruption of their comfortable routine when they spoke their voices sounded casually important the conversation was about my father thinks he knows what he's doing one said oh now I wouldn't say that said another attacus Finch is a deep reader a mighty deep reader he reads all right that is all he
• 336:30 - 337:00 does the club snickered let me tell you something now Billy a third said you know the court appointed him to defend this yeah but attakus aims to defend him that is what I do not like about it this was news news that put a different light on things attakus had to whether he wanted to or not I thought it odd that he had not said anything to us about it we could have used it many times in defending him and ourselves he had to that's why he was
• 337:00 - 337:30 doing it equaled fewer fights and less fussing but did that explain the town's attitude the the court appointed attacus to defend him attakus aimed to defend him that is what they did not like about it it was confusing the Negroes having waited for the white people to go upstairs began to come in whoa now just a minute said A club member holding up his walking stick just do not start up them their stairs yet a while the club began its stiff jointed
• 337:30 - 338:00 climb and ran into dill and gem on their way down looking for me they squeezed past and Gem called Scout come on there is not a seat left we will have to stand up look there now he said irritably as the black people surged upstairs the old men ahead of them would take most of the standing room we were out of luck and it was my fault Jem informed me we stood miserably by the wall cannot you all get in Reverend Sykes was looking down at us
• 338:00 - 338:30 black hat in hand hey Reverend said Jem n Scout here messed us up well let's see what we can do Reverend Sykes edged his way upstairs in a few moments he was back there was not a seat downstairs do you all reckon it will be all right if you all came to the balcony with me gosh yes said Jem happily we sped ahead of Reverend Sykes to the courtroom floor there we went up a covered staircase and waited at the door
• 338:30 - 339:00 Reverend Sykes came puffing behind us and steered us gently through the black people in the balcony Bon four Negroes Rose and gave us their front row seats the colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a secondstory veranda and from it we could see everything the jury sat to the left under long Windows sunburned lanky they seemed to be all Farmers but this was natural Town folk rarely sat on juries they were either struck or excused one
• 339:00 - 339:30 or two of the jury looked vaguely like dressed up cunninghams at this stage AG they sat straight and alert the circuit solicitor and another man attacus and Tom Robinson sat at tables with their backs to us there was a brown book and some yellow tablets on the solicitor's table atticus's was Bare just inside the railing that divided the spectators from the court the witnesses sat on cowhide bottom chairs their backs were to us judge
• 339:30 - 340:00 Taylor was on the bench looking like a sleepy old shark his Pilot fish riding rapidly Below in front of him judge Taylor looked like most judges I had ever seen amiable white-haired slightly Ruddy faed he was a man who ran his court with an alarming informality he sometimes propped his feet up he often cleaned his fingernails with his pocket knife in Long Equity hearings especially after dinner he gave the impression of dozing an impression dispelled forever
• 340:00 - 340:30 when a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up without opening his eyes judge Taylor murmured Mr Whitley do that again and it will cost you $100 he was a man learned in the law and although he seemed to take his job casually in reality he kept a firm grip on any proceedings that came before him only once was Judge Taylor ever seen at a dead standstill in open court and the
• 340:30 - 341:00 Cunningham stopped him old serum their stamping Grounds was populated by two families separate and apart in the beginning but unfortunately bearing the same name the cunninghams married the conningham until the spelling of the names was academic academic until a Cunningham disputed a coningham over Land Titles and took to the law during a controversy of this character James Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and
• 341:00 - 341:30 things but she was really a coningham she was an uncertain speller a seldom reader and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front Gallery in the evening after 9 hours of listening to the eccentricities of old sarm's inhabitants judge Taylor threw the case out of court when asked upon what grounds judge Taylor said cheru connivance and declared he hoped to God the litigants were satisfied by each having had their public
• 341:30 - 342:00 say they were that was all they had wanted in the first place judge Taylor had one interesting habit he permitted smoking in his courtroom but did not himself indulge sometimes if one was lucky one had the privilege of watching him put a long dry cigar into his mouth and Munch it slowly up bit by bit the dead cigar would disappear to reappear some hours later as a flat slick mess its Essence extracted and mingling with judge Taylor's digestive juices I once
• 342:00 - 342:30 asked attakus how Mrs Taylor stood to kiss him but attakus said they did not kiss much the witness stand was to the right of Judge Taylor and when we got to our seats Mr hect Tate was already on it chapter 17 Jem I said are those the ules sitting down yonder hush said Jem Mr hect Tate is testifying Mr Tate had dressed for the occasion he wore an ordinary business suit which made him
• 342:30 - 343:00 look somehow like every other man gone were his high boots Lumber jacket and bullet studded belt from that moment he ceased to terrify me he was sitting forward in the witness chair his hands clasped between his knees listening attentively to the Circuit solicitor the solicitor a Mr Gilmer was not well known to us he was from abbottsville we saw him only when court convened and that rarely for court was of no special interest to jeem and me a balding
• 343:00 - 343:30 smooth-faced man he could have been anywhere between 40 and 60 although his back was to us we knew he had a slight cast in one of his eyes which he used to his Advantage he seemed to be looking at a person when he was actually doing nothing of the kind thus he was hell on juries and Witnesses the jury thinking themselves under close scrutiny paid attention so did the witnesses thinking likewise in your own words Mr Tate Mr
• 343:30 - 344:00 Gilmer was saying well said Mr Tate touching his glasses and speaking to his knees I was called could you say it to the jury Mr Tate thank you who called you Mr Tate said I was fetched by Bob by Mr Bob Ule Yonder one night what night Sir Mr Tate said it was the night of November 21st I was just leaving my office to go home when B Mr Ule came in very excited he was and said get out to his house
• 344:00 - 344:30 quick some person had raped his girl did you go certainly got in the car and went out as fast as I could and what did you find found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room one on the right as you go in she was pretty well beat up but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in a bucket in the corner and said she was all right I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson judge Taylor who had
• 344:30 - 345:00 been concentrating on his fingernails looked up as if he were expecting an objection but attakus was quiet asked her if he beat her like that she said yes he had asked her if he took advantage of her and she said yes he did so I went down to Robinson's house and brought him back she identified him as the one so I took him in that is all there was to it thank you said Mr Gilmer judge Taylor said any questions attakus yes said my father he was sitting behind his table
• 345:00 - 345:30 his chair was skewed to one side his legs were crossed and one arm was resting on the back of his chair did you call a doctor Sheriff did anybody call a doctor asked attakus no sir said Mr Tate did not call a doctor no sir repeated Mr Tate why not there was an edge to atticus's voice well I can tell you why I didn't it was not necessary Mr Finch she was mighty banged up something sure
• 345:30 - 346:00 happened it was obvious but you did not call a doctor while you were there did anyone send for one fetch one carry her to one no sir Dash judge Taylor broke in he has answered the question three times attakus he didn't call a doctor attakus said I just wanted to make sure judge and the judge smiled jemk hand which was resting on the balcony rail tightened around it he drew in his breath suddenly glancing below I saw no corresponding
• 346:00 - 346:30 reaction and wondered if gem was trying to be dramatic Dill was watching peacefully and so was Reverend Sykes beside him what is it I whispered and got a tur sh Sheriff attacus was saying you say she was mighty banged up in what way well just describe her injuries heck well she was beaten around the head there was already bruises coming on her arms and it happened about 30 minutes before how do you know Mr Tate grinned
• 346:30 - 347:00 sorry that is what they said anyway she was pretty bruised up when I got there and she had a black eye coming which eye Mr Tate blinked and ran his hands through his hair let us see he said softly then he looked at attakus as if he considered the question childish cannot you remember attakus asked Mr Tate pointed to an invisible person 5 in in front of him and said her left wait a minute Sheriff said attakus
• 347:00 - 347:30 was it her left facing you or her left looking the same way you were Mr Tate said oh yes that would make it her right it was her right eye Mr Finch I remember now she was bunged up on that side of her face Mr tapate blinked again as if something had suddenly been made plain to him then he turned his head and looked around at Tom Robinson as if by Instinct Tom Robinson raised his head something had been made plain to attakus also and it brought him to his feet
• 347:30 - 348:00 Sheriff please repeat what you said it was her right eye I said said no attakus walked to the court reporter's desk and bent down to the furiously scribbling hand it stopped flipped back the shorthand pad and the court reporter said Mr Finch I remember now she was bunged up on that side of the face attakus looked up at Mr Tate which side again heck the right side Mr Finch but she had more bruises you want to hear
• 348:00 - 348:30 about them attakus seemed to be bordering on another question but he thought better of it and said yes what were her other injuries as Mr Tate answered attakus turned and looked at Tom Robinson as if to say this was something they had not bargained for her arms were bruised and she showed me her neck there were definite finger marks on her gullet all around her throat at the back of her neck I would say they were all around Mr
• 348:30 - 349:00 Finch you would yes sir she had a small throat anybody could have reached around it with just answer the question yes or no please Sheriff said attacus dry and Mr Tate fell silent attakus sat down and nodded to the Circuit solicitor who shook his head at the judge who nodded to Mr Tate Who Rose stiffly and stepped down from the witness stand below us heads turned feet scraped the floor babies were shifted to shoulders and a few children scampered
• 349:00 - 349:30 out of the courtroom the Negroes behind us whispered softly among themselves eles Dill was asking Reverend Sykes what it was all about but Reverend Sykes said he did not know so far things were utterly dull nobody had thundered there were no arguments between opposing Council there was no drama a grave disappointment to all present it seemed attakus was proceeding amiably as if he were involved in a title dispute with his infinite capacity for calming
• 349:30 - 350:00 turbulent Seas he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon gone was the ter Terror in my mind of stale whiskey and Barnyard smells of sleepy eyed Sullen men of a Husky voice calling in the night Mr Finch they gone our nightmare had gone with daylight everything would come out all right all the spectators were as relaxed as judge Taylor except gem his mouth was twisted into a purposeful half grin and his eyes were happy about and he said something about
• 350:00 - 350:30 corroborating evidence which made me sure he was showing off Robert E leeu in answer to the clerk's booming voice a little bantom of a man Rose and strutted to the stand the back of his neck rening at the sound of his name when he turned around to take the oath we saw that his face was as red as his neck we also saw no resemblance to his namesake a shock of wispy new washed hair stood up from his forehead his nose
• 350:30 - 351:00 was thin pointed and shiny he had no Chin to speak of it seemed to be part of his creepy neck so help me God he crowed every town the size of makome had families like the ules no economic fluctuations change their status Dash people like the ules lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression no truant officers could keep their numerous Offspring in school no Public Health officer could free them
• 351:00 - 351:30 from congenital defects various worms and the diseases indigenous to Filthy surroundings makome ules lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a negro cabin the cabin's plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flat so only its General shape suggested its original design square with four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun Hall the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone
• 351:30 - 352:00 its windows were merely Open Spaces in the walls which in the summertime were cover CED with greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Mom's Refuge the varmints had a lean time of it for the uleles gave the dump a thorough gleaning every day and the fruits of their industry those that were not eaten made the plot of ground around the cabin look like the playhouse of an insane child what passed for a fence was bits of tree limbs broomsticks and Tool
• 352:00 - 352:30 shafts all tipped with Rusty Hammerheads snaggle toothed rakee heads shovels axes and grubbing hose held on with pieces of barbed wire enclosed by this barricade was a dirty yard containing the remains of a Model T Ford on blocks a discarded dentist's chair an ancient ice box plus lesser items such as old shoes worn out table radios picture frames and fruit jars under which scrawny orange chickens pecked hopefully one corner of the yard though
• 352:30 - 353:00 bewildered makome against the fence in a line were six chipped enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to miss motty Atkinson had Miss motty dained to permit a geranium on her premises people said they were Mella ules nobody was quite sure how many children were on the place some people said six others said nine there were always several dirty-faced ones at the windows when anyone passed by nobody had
• 353:00 - 353:30 occasion to pass by except at Christmas when the churches delivered baskets and when the mayor of makome asked us to please help the garbage collector by dumping our own trees and trash attakus took us with him last Christmas when he complied with the mayor's request a dirt road ran from the highway past the dump down to a small negro settlement some 500 yard beyond the ules it was necessary either to back out to the
• 353:30 - 354:00 highway or go the full length of the road and turn around most people turned around in the negro's front yards in the frosty December dusk their cabins looked neat and snug with pale blue smoke rising from the chimneys and doorways glowing Amber from the fires inside there were delicious smells about chicken bacon frying crisp as the Twilight air Gemini detected squirrel cooking but it took an old Countryman like attacus to identify possum and
• 354:00 - 354:30 rabbit Aromas that vanished when we rode back past the U residence all the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was that if scrubbed with lie soap in very hot water his skin was white is this Mr Robert Ule question mark asked Mr Gilmer that is my name Captain said the witness Mr Gilmer's back stiffened a little and I felt sorry for him perhaps I would better explain something now I have heard that lawyers
• 354:30 - 355:00 children on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument get the wrong wrong idea they think opposing counsil to be the personal enemies of their parents they suffer agonies and are surprised to see them often go out arm in-arm with their tormentors during the first recess this was not true of Jem and me we acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose I'm sorry that I cannot provide any drama in this respect if I did it would not be
• 355:00 - 355:30 true we could tell however when debate became more acrimonious than professional but this was from watching lawyers other than our father I never heard attacus raise his voice in my life except to a deaf witness Mr Gilmer was doing his job as attakus was doing his besides Mr uul was Mr Gilmer's witness and he had no business being rude to him of all people are you the father of Mella ewl was the next question well if I am not I cannot
• 355:30 - 356:00 do anything about it now her mother is dead was the answer judge Taylor stirred he turned slowly in his swivel chair and looked benignly at the witness are you the father of mayela uul he asked in a way that made the laughter below us stop suddenly yes sir Mr Ule said meekly judge Taylor went on in tones of Goodwill this is the first time you have ever been in court I do not recall ever seeing you here at the witness's
• 356:00 - 356:30 affirmative nod he continued well let us get something straight there will be no more audibly obscene speculations on any subject from anybody in this courtroom as long as I am sitting here do you understand Mr uul nodded but I do not think he did Judge Taylor sighed and said all right Mr Gilmer thank you sir Mr uul would you tell us in your own words what happened on the evening of November 21st please Gem grinned and pushed his hair back
• 356:30 - 357:00 just in your own words was Mr Gilmer's trademark we often wondered who else's words Mr Gilmer was afraid his witness might employ well the night of November 21 I was coming in from the woods with a load of kindling and just as I got to the fence I heard Mella screaming like a stuck hog inside the house here judge Taylor glanced sharply at the witness and must have decided his speculations devoid of evil intent for he subsided
• 357:00 - 357:30 sleepily what time was it Mr uul just before sundown well I was saying Mella was screaming fit to beat Jesus another glance From the Bench silenced Mr UL yes she was screaming question mark said Mr Gilmer Mr Ule looked confusedly at the judge well Mella was Raising this holy racket so I dropped my load and ran as fast as I could but I ran into the fence but when I got disentangled I ran up to the window and I saw Mr 's face grew
• 357:30 - 358:00 Scarlet he stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson I saw that black person over there engaging in inappropriate behavior with my Mella so Serene was Judge Taylor's court that he had few occasions to use his gavel but he hammered fully 5 minutes attakus was on his feet at the bench saying something to him Mr hect Tate as first officer of the county stood in the middle aisle quelling the
• 358:00 - 358:30 packed courtroom behind us there was an angry muffled groan from the colored people Reverend Sykes leaned across dill and me pulling at jemk elbow Mr gem he said you better take Miss jeene Louise home Mr gem you hear me Jem turned his head Scout go home Dill you and Scout go home you have to make me first I said remembering atticus's blessed dictum gem scowled furiously at me then said to Reverend Sykes I think it is okay Reverend she does not understand it I
• 358:30 - 359:00 was mortally offended I most certainly do I can understand anything you can ah hush she does not understand it Reverend she is not nine yet Reverend syk's black eyes were anxious Mr Finch knows you all are here this is not fit for Miss Jean Louise or you boys either gem shook his head he can't see us this far away it is all right Reverend I knew gem would win because I knew nothing could make him
• 359:00 - 359:30 leave now dill and I were safe for a while attakus could see us from where he was if he looked as judge Taylor banged his gavl Mr UL was sitting smugly in the witness chair surveying his handiwork with one phrase he had turned happy picnickers into a sulky tense murmuring crowd being slowly hypnotized by gavel TAPS lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink pink pink the judge might have been wrapping the bench with a
• 359:30 - 360:00 pencil in possession of his court once more judge Taylor leaned back in his chair he looked suddenly weary his age was showing and I thought about what attakus had said he and Mrs Taylor did not kiss much he must have been nearly 70 there has been a request judge Taylor said that this courtroom be cleared of Spectators or at least of women and children a request that will be denied for the time being people generally see
• 360:00 - 360:30 what they look for and hear what they listen for and they have the right to subject their children to it but I can assure you of one thing you will receive what you see and hear in silence or you will leave this courtroom but you won't leave it until the whole boiling of you come before me on contempt charges Mr uul you will keep your testimony within the confines of Christian English usage if that is possible proceed Mr Gilmer Mr uul reminded me of a deaf mute I was sure he
• 360:30 - 361:00 had never heard the words judge Taylor directed at him his mouth struggled silently with them but their import registered on his face smugness faded from it replaced by a dogged earnestness that fooled judge Taylor not at all as long as Mr Ule was on the stand the judge kept his eyes on him as if daring him to make a false move Mr Gilmer and attakus exchanged glances attakus was sitting down again his fist rested on
• 361:00 - 361:30 his cheek and we could not see his face Mr Gilmer looked rather desperate a question from Judge Taylor made him relax Mr Ule did you see the defendant having sexual intercourse with your daughter yes I did The Spectators were quiet but the defendant said something attakus whispered to him and Tom Robinson was silent you say you were at the window asked Mr Gilmer yes sir how far is it from the ground about 3T did
• 361:30 - 362:00 you have a clear view of the room yes sir how did the room look well it was was all slung about like there was a fight what did you do when you saw the defendant well I run around the house to get in but he ran out the front door just ahead of me I saw who he was all right I was too distracted about Mella to run after him I run in the house and she was lying on the floor squalling then what did you do why I run for Tate quick as I could I knew who it was all
• 362:00 - 362:30 right live down there in that derogatory term pass the house every day judge I have asked this County for 15 years to clean out that Nest Down Yonder they are dangerous to live around besides devaluing my property thank you Mr uul said Mr Gilmer hurriedly the witness made a hasty descent from the stand and ran smack into attakus who had risen to question him judge Taylor permitted the court to laugh just a minute sir said
• 362:30 - 363:00 attakus genially could I ask you a question or two Mr uul backed up into the witness chair settled himself and regarded attakus with huy suspicion an expression common to makome County Witnesses when confronted by opposing councel Mr Ule attacus began folks were doing a lot of running that night let us see you say you ran to the house you ran to the window you ran inside you ran to Mella you ran for Mr Tate did you during
• 363:00 - 363:30 all this running run for a doctor wasn't no need to I saw what happened happened but there is one thing I do not understand said attakus weren't you concerned with mayella's condition I most positively was said Mr Ule I saw who did it no I mean her physical condition did you not think the nature of her injuries warranted immediate medical attention what did not you think she should have had a doctor
• 363:30 - 364:00 immediately the witness said he never thought of it he had never called a doctor to any of his own his life and if he had it would have cost him $5 that all question mark he asked period not quite said attakus casually Mr U you heard the sheriff's testimony didn't you how is that you were in the courtroom when Mr Hecate was on the stand were not you you heard everything he said didn't you Mr Ule considered the matter
• 364:00 - 364:30 carefully and seemed to decide that the question was safe yes he said do you you agree with his description of mela's injuries how is that attakus looked around at Mr Gilmer and smiled Mr uul seemed determined not to give the defense the time of day Mr Tate testified that her right eye was blackened that she was beaten around the dash oh yeah said the witness I hold with everything Tate said you do asked attakus mildly I just want to make sure
• 364:30 - 365:00 he went to the court reporter said something and the reporter entertained us for some minutes by reading Mr Tate's testimony as if it were stock market quotations which I her left oh yes that would make it her right it was her right eye Mr Finch I remember now she was bunged he flipped the page up on that side of the face Sheriff please repeat what you said it was her right eye I said Thank You Bert said attakus you heard it again Mr uul do you have
• 365:00 - 365:30 anything to add to it do you agree with the sheriff I hold with tapate her eye was blacked and she was mighty beat up the little man seemed to have forgotten his previous humiliation From the Bench it was becoming evident that he thought attakus an easy match he seemed to grow Ruddy again his chest swelled and once more he was a red Little Rooster I thought he would burst his shirt at atticus's next question Mr U
• 365:30 - 366:00 Can you read and write Mr Gilmer interrupted objection he said cannot see what witness's literacy has to do with the case irrelevant and immaterial judge Taylor was about to speak but atus said judge if you will allow the question plus another one you will soon see all right let us see said judge Taylor but make sure we see attacus overruled Mr Gilmer seemed as curious as the rest of us as to what bearing the state of Mr ul's education had on the
• 366:00 - 366:30 case I will repeat the question said attakus can you read and write I most positively can will you write your name and show us I most positively will how do you think I signed my relief checks Mr Ule was endearing himself to his fellow citizens The Whispers And Chuckles below us probably had to do with what a card he was I was becoming nervous attakus seemed to know what he was doing but it seemed to me that he
• 366:30 - 367:00 had gone frog sticking without a light never never never on CR examination ask a witness a question you do not already know the answer to was a tenant I absorbed with my baby food do it and you will often get an answer you do not want an answer that might wreck your case attakus was reaching into the inside pocket of his coat he drew out an envelope then reached into his vest pocket and unclipped his fountain pen he moved leisurely and had turned so that
• 367:00 - 367:30 he was in full view of the jury he unscrewed the fountain pen cap and placed it gently on his table he shook the pen a little then handed it with the envelope to the witness would you write your name for us he asked clearly now so the jury can see you do it Mr U wrote on the back of the envelope and looked up complacently to see judge Taylor staring at him as if he were some fragrant gardinia in full bloom on the witness stand to see Mr
• 367:30 - 368:00 Gilmer half sitting half standing at his table the jury was watching him one man was leaning forward with his hands over the railing what is so interesting he asked you are left-handed Mr Ule said judge Taylor Mr Ule turned angrily to the judge and said he did not see what his being left-handed had to do with it that he was a Christ fearing man and attakus Finch was taking advantage of him tricking lawyers like attakus Finch took
• 368:00 - 368:30 advantage of him all the time with their tricking ways he had told told them what happened he would say it again and again which he did nothing attacus asked him after that shook his story that he had looked through the window then ran the off then ran for the sheriff attakus finally dismissed him Mr Gilmer asked him one more question about your writing with your left hand are you ambidextrous Mr uul I most positively am
• 368:30 - 369:00 not I can use one hand as good as the other one hand good as the other he he added glaring at the defense table gem seemed to be having a quiet fit he was pounding the balcony rail softly and once he whispered we have got him I didn't think so attakus was trying to show it seemed to me that Mr Ule could have beaten up Mella that much I could follow if her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face it would tend to show that a
• 369:00 - 369:30 left-handed person did it Sherlock Holmes and and jeem Finch would agree but Tom Robinson could easily be left-handed too like Mr hect Tate I imagined a person facing me went through a swift mental pantomime and concluded that he might have held her with his right hand and pounded her with his left I looked down at him his back was to us but I could see his broad shoulders and bull thick neck he could
• 369:30 - 370:00 easily have done it I thought gem was counting his chickens chapter 18 but someone was booming again mayella Violet you will exclamation mark a young girl walked to the witness stand as she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help her God she seemed somehow fragile looking but when she sat facing Us in the witness chair she became what
• 370:00 - 370:30 she was a thick-bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor in makome County it was easy to tell when someone bathed regularly as opposed to yearly lovations Mr Ule had a scalded look as if an overnight soaking had deprived him of protective layers of dirt his skin appeared to be sensitive to the elements Mella looked as if she tried to keep clean and I was reminded of the row of red geraniums in the UL yard Mr
• 370:30 - 371:00 Gilmer asked mayella to tell the jury in her own words what happened on the evening of November 21st of last year just in her own words please Mella sat silently where were you at dusk on that evening began Mr Gilmer patiently on the porch which porch ain't but one the front porch what were you doing on the porch nothing judge Taylor said just tell us what happened you can do that can't you myela stared at him
• 371:00 - 371:30 and burst into tears she covered her mouth with her hands and sobbed judge Taylor Let Her Cry for a while then he said that is enough now don't be afraid of anybody here as long as you tell the truth all this is strange to you I know but you have nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to fear what are you scared of myella said something behind her hands what was that asked the judge him she sobbed pointing at attakus she nodded vigorously saying do
• 371:30 - 372:00 not want him doing me like he done Papa trying to make him out left-handed judge Taylor scratched his thick white hair it was plain that he had never been confronted with a problem of this kind how old are you he asked 19 and a half mayella said judge Taylor cleared his throat and tried unsuccessfully to speak in soothing tones Mr Finch has no idea of scaring you he growled and if he did I am here to stop him that is one
• 372:00 - 372:30 thing I'm sitting up here for now you are big girl so you just sit up straight and tell the tell us what happened to you you can do that can't you I whispered to Jem has she got good sense Jem was squinting down at the witness stand can't tell yet he said she has got enough sense to get the judge sorry for her but she might be just oh I do not know mollified Mella gave attakus a final terrified glance and said to Mr
• 372:30 - 373:00 Gilmer well sir I was on the porch and and he came along and you see there was this old chifferobe in the yard Papa had brought in to chop up for kindling Papa told me to do it while he was off in the woods but I wasn't feeling strong enough then so he came by who is he mayella pointed to Tom Robinson I will have to ask you to be more specific please said Mr Gilmer the reporter cannot put down gestures very well that and Yonder she
• 373:00 - 373:30 said Robinson then what happened I said come here Nick ger and bust up this chiffer robe for me I got a nickel for you he could have done it easy enough he could so he came in the yard and I went in the house to get him the nickel and I turned around and before I knew it he was on me just run up behind me he did he got me around the neck cursing me and saying dirt I fought and hollered but he had me around the neck he hit me again
• 373:30 - 374:00 and again Mr Gilmer waited for Mella to collect herself she had Twisted her handkerchief into a sweaty rope when she opened it to wipe her face it was a mass of creases from her hot hands she waited for Mr Gilmer to ask another question but when he did not she said he chunked me on the floor and choked me and took advantage of me did you scream asked Mr Gilmer did you scream and fight back reckon I did hollered for all I was
• 374:00 - 374:30 worth kicked and hollered loud as I could then what happened I do not remember too well but the next thing I knew Papa was in the room standing over me hollering who done it who done it then I sort of fainted and the next thing I knew Mr Tate was pulling me up off of the floor and leading me to the water bucket apparently mayella's recital had given her confidence but it was not her father's Brash kind there was something stealthy about hers like a steady eyed
• 374:30 - 375:00 cat with a Twitchy tail you say you fought him off as as hard as you could fought him tooth and nail asked Mr Gilmer I positively did myella echoed her father you are positive that he took full advantage of you mayella's face contorted and I was afraid that she would cry again instead she said he done what he was after Mr Gilmer called attention to the hot day by wiping his head with his hand that is all for the time being he
• 375:00 - 375:30 said pleasantly but you stay there I expect big bad Mr Finch has some questions to ask you state will not Prejudice the witness against Council for the defense murmured judge Taylor primley at least not at this time attacus got up grinning but instead of walking to the witness stand he opened his coat and hooked his thumbs in his vest then he walked slowly across the room to the windows he looked out but didn't seem especially interested in what he saw
• 375:30 - 376:00 then he turned and strolled back to the witness stand from long years of experience I could tell he was trying to come to a decision about something Miss mayella he said smiling I won't try to scare you for a while not yet let us just get acquainted how old are you said I was 19 said it to the judge Yonder mayella jerked her head resentfully at the bench so you did so you did ma'am you will have to bear with
• 376:00 - 376:30 me Miss Mella I am getting along and cannot remember as well as I used to I might ask you things you have already said before but you will give me an answer will not you good I could see nothing in mayella's expression to justify atticus's assumption that he had secured her wholehearted cooperation she was looking at him furiously won't answer a word you say long as you keep on mocking me she said ma'am asked attakus startled
• 376:30 - 377:00 Longs you keep on making fun of me judge Taylor said Mr Finch is not making fun of you what is the matter with you myella looked from under lowered eyelids at attakus but she said to the judge long as he keeps on calling me ma'am and saying Miss mayella I do not have to take his sass I am not called upon to take it attakus resumed his stroll to the windows and let judge Taylor handle this one judge Taylor was not the kind of figure that ever evoked pity but I
• 377:00 - 377:30 did feel a Pang for him as he tried to explain that that is just Mr Finch's way he told Mella we have done business in this court for years and years and Mr Finch is always courteous to everybody he is not trying to mock you he is trying to be polite that is just his way the judge leaned back attakus let us get on with these proceedings and let the record show that the witness has not been sassed her views to the contrary I
• 377:30 - 378:00 wondered if anybody had ever called her ma'am or Miss Mella in her life life probably not as she took offense to routine courtesy what on Earth was her life like I soon found out you say you are 19 attakus resumed how many sisters and brothers have you he walked from the windows back to the stand Seb apostrophe M she said and I wondered if they were all like the specimen I had seen the first day I started to school you the eldest the oldest yes how
• 378:00 - 378:30 long has your mother been dead don't know long time did you ever go to school read and write good as Papa Yonder mayella sounded like a Mr Jingle in a book I had been reading how long did you go to school 2 year 3 year I don't know slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of atticus's questions from questions that Mr Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to attakus was quietly building
• 378:30 - 379:00 up before the jury a picture of the ul's home life the jury learned the following things their relief check was far from enough to feed the family and there was strong suspicion that Papa drank it up anyway he sometimes went off in the swamp for days and came home sick the weather was seldom cold enough to require shoes but when it was you could make Dandy ones from strips of old tires the family hauled its water in buckets from a
• 379:00 - 379:30 spring that ran out at one end of the dump they kept the surrounding area clear of trash and it was everybody for himself as far as keeping clean went if you wanted to wash you hauled your own water the younger children had Perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground itch there was a lady who came around sometimes and asked Mella why she didn't stay in school she wrote down the answer with two members of the family reading and writing there was no need for the rest of them to learn Papa needed them
• 379:30 - 380:00 at home miss mayella said attakus in spite of himself a 19-year-old girl like you must have friends who are your friends the witness frowned as if puzzled friends yes do not you know anyone near your age or older or younger boys and girls just ordinary friends mayella's hostility which had subsided to grudging neutrality flared again you are making fun of me again Mr Finch
• 380:00 - 380:30 attakus let her question answer his do you love your father Miss mayella was his next love him what do you mean I mean is he good to you is he easy to get along with he does tolerable except when except when Mella looked at her father who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing he sat up straight and waited for her to answer except when nothing said Mella I said he does tolerable Mr U leaned back again except when he is drinking asked
• 380:30 - 381:00 attakus so gently that myella nodded does he ever go after you how do you mean when he is riled has he ever beaten you myella looked around down at the court reporter up at the judge answer the question Miss Mella said judge Taylor my Paws never touched a hair of my head in my life she declared firmly he never touched me atticus's glasses had slipped a little and he pushed them up on his nose we have had a good visit
• 381:00 - 381:30 Miss mayella and now I guess we had better get to the cave you say you asked Tom Robinson To Come chop up a what was it a chifferobe an old dresser full of drawers on one side was Tom Robinson well known to you what do you mean I mean did you know who he was where he lived Mella nodded I knew who he was he passed the house every day was this the first time you asked him to come inside the fence Mella jumped slightly at the
• 381:30 - 382:00 question attakus was making his slow pilgrimage to the windows as he had been doing he would ask a question then look out waiting for an answer he did not see her involuntary jump but it seemed to me that he knew she had moved he turned around and raised his eyebrows was he began again yes it was did not you ever ask him to come inside the fence before she was prepared now I did not I certainly did not one did Nots enough
• 382:00 - 382:30 said attakus serenely you never asked him to do odd job jobs for you before I might have conceded Mella there were several people around can you remember any other occasions no all right now to what happened you said Tom Robinson was behind you in the room when you turned around that right yes you said he got you around the neck cussing and saying dirt is that right T's right atticus's memory had suddenly become accurate you say he
• 382:30 - 383:00 caught me and choked me and took advantage of me is that right that is what I said do you remember him beating you about the face the witness hesitated you seem sure enough that he choked you all this time you were fighting back remember you kicked and hollered as loud as you could do you remember him beating you about the face Mella was silent she seemed to be trying to get something clear to herself I thought for a moment she was
• 383:00 - 383:30 doing Mr hect Tates and my trick of pretending there was a person in front of us she glanced at Mr Gilmer it is an easy question Miss Mella so I will try again do you remember him beating you about the face atticus's voice had lost its comfortableness he was speaking in his Aid detached professional voice do you remember him beating you about the face no I do not recollect if he hit me I mean yes I do he hit me was your last
• 383:30 - 384:00 sentence your answer huh yes yes he hit Dash I just do not remember I just do not remember it all happened so quick judge Taylor looked sternly at mayella don't you cry young woman Dash he began but attakus said Let Her Cry if she wants to judge we have got all the time in the world Mella sniffed wrathfully and looked at attakus I will answer any question you got Dash get me up here and mock me will you I will answer any
• 384:00 - 384:30 question you got that is fine said adus there are only a few more Miss mayella not to be tedious you have testified that the defendant hit you grabbed you around the neck choked you and took advantage of you I want you to be sure you have the right man will you identify the man who raped you I will that is him right Yonder attacus turned to the defendant Tom stand up let Miss Mella have a good long look at you is this the
• 384:30 - 385:00 man miss mayella Tom Robinson's power shoulders rippled under his thin shirt he rose to his feet and stood with his right hand on the back of his chair he looked oddly off balance but it was not from the way he was standing his left arm was fully 12 in shorter than his right and hung dead at his side it ended in a small shriveled hand and from as far away as the balcony I could see that it was no use to him Scout breathed Jem Scout look
• 385:00 - 385:30 Reverend he is crippled Reverend Sykes leaned across me and whispered to Jem he got it caught in a cotton Jin caught it in Mr Dolphus Raymond's cotton gin when he was a boy like to bled to death tore all the muscles loose from his bones atus said is this the man who raped you it most certainly is atticus's next question was one word long how mayella was raging I
• 385:30 - 386:00 do not know how he did it but he did it I said it all happened so fast I SP now let us consider this calmly Dash began atus but Mr Gilmer interrupted with an objection he was not irrelevant or immaterial but attakus was browbeating the witness judge Taylor laughed outright oh sit down Horus he is doing nothing of the sort if anything the witness's browbeating attacus judge Taylor was the only person in the courtroom who laughed even the babies were still and I
• 386:00 - 386:30 suddenly wondered if they had been smothered at their mother's breasts now said attakus Miss Mella you have testified that the defendant choked and beat you you did not say that he sneaked up behind you and knocked you cold but you turned around and there he was attakus was back behind his table and he emphasized his words by tapping his knuckles on it do you wish to reconsider any of your testimony you want me to say something that did not
• 386:30 - 387:00 happen no ma'am I want you to say something that did happen tell us once more please what happened I told you what happened you testified that you turned around and there he was he choked you then yes then he released your throat and hit you I said he did he blacked your left eye with his right fist I ducked and it it glanced that is what it did I ducked and it glanced off Mella had finally seen the light you
• 387:00 - 387:30 were becoming suddenly clear on this point a while ago you could not remember too well could you I said he hit me all right he choked you he hit you then he raped you that right it most certainly is you are a strong girl what were you doing all the time just standing there I told you I hollered and kicked and fought attakus reached up and took off his glasses turned his good right eye to the witness and reigned questions on her
• 387:30 - 388:00 judge Taylor said one question at a time attakus give the witness a chance to answer all right why didn't you run I tried tried to question mark what kept you from it he slung me down that is what he did he slung me down and got on top of me you were screaming all this time I certainly was then why didn't the other children hear you where were they at the dump where were they no answer why didn't your screams make them come running the
• 388:00 - 388:30 dumps closer than the wood isn't it no answer or didn't you scream until you saw your father in the window you didn't think to scream until then did you no answer did you scream first at your father instead of at Tom Robinson was that it no answer who beat you up Tom Robinson or your father no answer what did your father see in the window the crime of rape or the best defense to it why do not you tell the
• 388:30 - 389:00 truth child did not Bob U will beat you up when attakus turned away from Mella he looked like his stomach hurt but mayella's face was a mixture of Terror and fury adus sat down wearily and Polished his glasses with his handkerchief suddenly Mella became articulate I got something to say she said attacus raised his head do you want to tell us what happened but she did not hear the compassion in his invitation I got something to say and
• 389:00 - 389:30 then I'm not going to say no more that person Yonder took advantage of me and if you find fancy gentlemen do not want to do anything about it then you are all yellow stinking cowards stinking cowards the lot of you your fancy heirs do not come to nothing your Mammon and Miss mayelin do not come to nothing Mr Finch then she burst into real tears her shoulders shook with angry sobs she was as good as her word she answered no more
• 389:30 - 390:00 questions even when Mr Gilmer tried to get her back back on the track I guess if she hadn't been so poor and ignorant judge Taylor would have put her under the jail for the contempt she had shown everybody in the courtroom somehow attakus had hit her hard in a way that was not clear to me but it gave him no pleasure to do so he sat with his head down and I never saw anybody glare at anyone with the hatred mayella showed when she left the stand
• 390:00 - 390:30 and walked by atticus's table when Mr Gilmer told judge Taylor that the state rested judge Taylor said it is time we all did we will take 10 minutes attacus and Mr Gilmer met in front of the bench and whispered then they left the courtroom by a door behind the witness stand which was a signal for us all to stretch I discovered that I had been sitting on the edge of the long bench and I was somewhat numb Jem got up and yawned Dill did
• 390:30 - 391:00 likewise and Reverend Sykes wiped his face on his hat the temperature was an easy 90 he said Mr Braxton Underwood who had been sitting quietly in a chair reserved for the Press soaking up testimony with his sponge of a brain allowed his bitter eyes to Rove over the colored balcony and they met mine he gave a snort and looked away Jem I said Mr Underwood seen us that is okay he will not tell adus he will just put it on the social side of the Tribune Jem
• 391:00 - 391:30 turned back to Dill explaining I suppose the finer points of the trial to him but I wondered what they were there had been no lengthy debates between attakus and Mr Gilmer on any points Mr Gilmer seemed to be prosecuting almost reluctantly Witnesses had been led by the nose as asses are with few objections but attakus had once told us that in judge Taylor's Court any lawyer who was a strict constructionist on evidence usually wound up receiving
• 391:30 - 392:00 strict instructions from the bench he distilled this for me to mean that judge Taylor might look lazy and operate in his sleep but he was seldom reversed and that was the proof of the pudding attakus said he was a good judge presently judge Taylor returned and climbed into his swivel chair he took a cigar from his vest pocket and examined it thoughtfully I punched Dill having passed the judge's inspection the cigar suffered a vicious bite we come down
• 392:00 - 392:30 sometimes to watch him I expl laed it is going to take him the rest of the afternoon now you watch unaware of public scrutiny from above judge Taylor disposed of the severed End by propelling it expertly to his lips and saying fluck he hit a spatoon so squarely we could hear it SOS Betty was hell with a spitball murmured Dill as a rule a recess meant a general Exodus but today people were not moving even the
• 392:30 - 393:00 idlers who had failed to shame younger men from their seats had remained standing along the walls I guess Mr hect Tate had reserved the county toilet for court officials attakus and Mr Gilmer returned and judge Taylor looked at his watch it is getting on to 4: he said which was intriguing as the courthouse clock must have struck the hour at least twice I had not heard it or felt its vibrations shall we try to wind up this afternoon asked judge Taylor how about
• 393:00 - 393:30 it attakus I think we can said attacus how many witnesses you got one we'll call him chapter 19 Thomas Robinson reached around ran his fingers under his left arm and lifted it he guided his arm to the Bible and his rubber like left hand sought contact with the black binding as he raised his right hand the useless one slipped off the Bible and hit the
• 393:30 - 394:00 clerk's table he was trying again when judge Taylor growled that will do Tom Tom took the oath and stepped into the witness chair attakus very quickly induced him to tell us Tom was 25 years of age he was married with three children he had been in trouble with the law before he once received 30 days for disorderly conduct it must have been disorderly said attakus what did it consist of got in a fight with another
• 394:00 - 394:30 man he tried to cut me did he succeed yes sir a little not enough to hurt you see I dashed Tom moved his left shoulder yes said attakus you were both convicted yes sir I had to serve because I could not pay the fine other fellow paid his own Dill leaned across me and asked jeem what attakus was doing Jem said attakus was showing the jury that Tom had nothing to hide were you acquainted with Mella Violet UL asked attakus yes sir I
• 394:30 - 395:00 had to pass her place going to and from the field every day whose field I pick for Mr Link D's were you picking cotton in November no sir I work in his yard fall and wintertime I work pretty steadily for him all year round he has got a lot of pecan trees and things you say you had to pass the ew place to get to and from work is there any other way to go no sir none that I know of Tom did
• 395:00 - 395:30 she ever speak to you why yes sir I would tip my hat when I would go by and one day she asked me to come inside the fence and break up a chiffer robe for her when did she ask you to chop up the the chifferobe Mr Finch it was way last spring I remember it because it was chopping time and I had my hoe with me I said I did not have anything but this hoe but she said she had a hatchet she gave me the hatchet and I broke up the chifferobe she said I reckon I will have
• 395:30 - 396:00 to give you a nickel will I not and I said no ma'am there is no charge then I went home Mr Finch that was way last spring way over a year ago did you ever go on the place again yes sir when well I went lots of times judge Taylor instinctively reached for his gavel but let his hand fall the murmur below us died without his help under what circumstances please sir why did you go inside the fence lots of times Tom
• 396:00 - 396:30 Robinson's forehead relaxed she would call me in sir seemed like every time I passed by Yonder she would have some little something for me to do chopping kindling toing water for her she watered them red flowers every day were you paid for your services no sir not after she offered me a nickel the first time I was glad to do it Mr Ule did not seem to help her none and neither did the children and I knew she did not have any
• 396:30 - 397:00 nickels to spare where were the other children they were always around all over the place they would watch me work some of them some of them would sit in the window would miss mayella talk to you yes sir she talked to me as Tom Robinson gave his testimony it came to me that Mella ell must have been the lonliest person in the world she was even lonlier than bu Radley who had not been out of the house in 25 years when attakus asked
• 397:00 - 397:30 had she any friends she seemed not to know what he me meant then she thought he was making fun of her she was as sad I thought as what gem called a mixed child white people would not have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs Negroes would not have anything to do with her because she was white she couldn't live like Mr Dolphus Raymond who preferred the company of negroes because she didn't own a riverbank and she wasn't from A Fine old
• 397:30 - 398:00 family nobody said that is just their way about the ews makome gave them Christmas baskets welfare money and the back of its hand Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her but she said he took advantage of her and when she stood up she looked at him as if he were dirt beneath her feet did you ever attacus interrupted my meditations at any time go on the U property did you ever set foot on the o property without an Express invitation
• 398:00 - 398:30 from one of them No Sir Mr Finch I never did I would not do that sir attacus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch I applied his test Tom denied it three times in one breath but quietly with no hint of whining in his voice and I found myself believing him in spite of his protesting too much he seemed to be a respectable negro and a respectable negro would never go up into
• 398:30 - 399:00 somebody's yard of his own volition Tom what happened to you on the evening of November 21st of last year below us the spectators drew a collective breath and leaned forward behind us the black people did the same Tom was a black velvet negro not shiny but soft Black Velvet the whites of his eyes Shone in his face and when he spoke we saw flashes of his teeth if he had been whole he would have been a fine specimen
• 399:00 - 399:30 of a man Mr Finch he said I was going home as usual that evening and when I passed the Ule Place Miss Mella was on the porch like she said she was it seemed really quiet likee and I didn't quite know why I was studying why just passing by when she says for me to come there and help her a minute well I went inside the fence and looked around for some kindling to work on but I didn't see any and she says no I got something for you to do in the house the old door
• 399:30 - 400:00 is off its hinges and fall is coming on pretty fast I said you got a screwdriver Miss mayella she said she sure had well I went up the steps and she motioned me to come inside and I went in the front room and looked at the door I said miss mayella this door looks all right I pulled it back and forth and those hinges were all right then she shut the door in my face Mr Finch I was wondering why it was so quiet like and it came to
• 400:00 - 400:30 me that there weren't a child on the place not a one one of them and I said Miss Mella where are the children Tom's black velvet skin had begun to shine and he ran his hand over his face I say where the children he continued and she says she was laughing sort of she says they all gone to town to get ice creams she says took me a slap year to save seven nickels but I done it they have all gone to town tomk discomfort was not from the humidity
• 400:30 - 401:00 what did you say then Tom asked attakus I said something like why Miss Mella that is right smart of you to treat them and she said you think so I do not think she understood what I was thinking I meant it was smart of her to save like that and nice of her to treat them I understand you Tom go on said attakus well I said I best be going I could not do anything for her and she says oh yes I could and I ask her what and she says to just step on that chair Yonder and
• 401:00 - 401:30 get that box down from on top of the chi robe not the same Chi robobee you busted up question mark asked attacus period the witness smiled n sir another one most as tall as the room so I done what she told me and I was just reaching when the next thing I know she she had grabbed me around the legs grabbed me around the legs Mr Finch she scared me so bad I hopped down and turned the chair over that was the only thing only
• 401:30 - 402:00 Furniture Disturbed in that room Mr Finch when I left it I swear before God what happened after you turned the chair over Tom Robinson had come to a dead stop he glanced at attakus then at the jury then at Mr Underwood sitting across the room Tom you are sworn to tell the whole truth will you tell it Tom ran his hand nervously over his mouth what happened after that answer the question said judge Taylor onethird of his cigar
• 402:00 - 402:30 had vanished Mr Finch I got down off of that chair and turned around and she sort of jumped on me jumped on you violently no sir she she hugged me she hugged me around the waist this time judge Taylor's gavel came down with a bang and as it did the overhead lights went on in the courtroom Darkness had not come but the afternoon sun had left the windows judge Taylor quickly restored order then what did she do the
• 402:30 - 403:00 witness swallowed hard she reached up and kissed me on the side of the face she says she never kissed a grown man before and she might as well kiss a she says what her papa does to her does not count she says kiss me back I say Miss Mella let me out of here and tried to run but she got her back to the door and I would have had to push her I didn't want to harm her Mr Finch and I say let me pass but
• 403:00 - 403:30 just when I say it Mr Ule Yonder hollered through through the window what did he say Tom Robinson swallowed again and his eyes widened something not fitting to say not fitting for these folks and children to hear what did he say Tom you must tell the jury what he said Tom Robinson shut his eyes tight he says you godamn I will kill you then what happened Mr Finch I was running so fast I didn't know what happened Tom did you rape mayela uul I
• 403:30 - 404:00 did not sir did you harm her in any way I did not sir did you resist her advances Mr Finch I tried I tried to without being ugly to her I didn't want to be ugly I didn't want to push her or nothing it occurred to me that in their own way Tom Robinson's manners were as good as atticus's until my father explained it to me later I did not understand the subtlety of Tom's predicament he would not have dared strike a white woman
• 404:00 - 404:30 under any circumstances and expect to live long so he took the first opportunity to run a sure sign of guilt Tom go back once more to Mr Ule said attakus did he say anything to you not anything sir he might have said something but I wasn't there that will do attakus cut in sharply what you did he who was he talking to Mr Finch he was talking and looking at Miss mayella then you ran I sure did Sir why did you run I
• 404:30 - 405:00 was scared sir why were you you scared Mr Finch if you were a person of color like me you would be scared too attakus sat down Mr Gilmer was making his way to the witness stand but before he got there Mr Link De Rose from the audience and announced I just want the whole lot of you to know one thing right now that boy has worked for me eight years and I have not had a speck of trouble out of him through mul not a speck shut your mouth sir judge Taylor was wide awake
• 405:00 - 405:30 and roaring he was also pink in the face his speech was miraculously unimpaired by his cigar link D's he yelled if you have anything you want to say you can say it under oath and at the proper time but until then you get out of this room you hear me get out of this room sir you hear me I will be damned if I will listen to this case again judge Taylor looked daggers at attakus as if daring him to speak but attakus had ducked his head
• 405:30 - 406:00 and was laughing into his lap I remembered something he had said about Judge Taylor's ex Cathedral remarks sometimes exceeding his duty but that few lawyers ever did anything about them I looked at Jem but Jem shook his head it isn't like one of the jurymen got up and started talking he said I think it would be different then Mr Link was just disturbing the piece or something judge Taylor told the reporter to expunge anything he happened to have
• 406:00 - 406:30 written down after Mr Finch if you were a person like me you would be scared too and told the jury to disregard the interruption he looked suspiciously down the middle aisle and waited I suppose for Mr Link D's to affect total departure then he said go ahead Mr Gilmer you were given 30 days once for disorderly conduct Robinson asked Mr Gilmer yes sir what did the look like when you got through with him he
• 406:30 - 407:00 beat me Mr Gilmer yes but but you were convicted weren't you attakus raised his head it was a misdemeanor and it is in the record judge I thought he sounded tired witness will answer though said judge Taylor just as wearily yes sir I got 30 days I knew that Mr Gilmer would sincerely tell the jury that anyone who was convicted of disorderly conduct could easily have had it in his heart to take advantage of Mela uul that was the only reason he cared reasons like that
• 407:00 - 407:30 that helped Robinson you are pretty good at busting up chifferobes and kindling with one hand are you yes sir I reckon so strong enough to choke the breath out of a woman and sling her to the floor I have never done that sir but you are strong enough to question mark I reckon so sir had your eye on her a long time had you not boy no sir I never looked at her then you were Mighty polite to do all that chopping and Hauling for her
• 407:30 - 408:00 weren't you boy I was just trying to help her out sir that was mighty generous of you you had chores at home after your regular work did not you yes sir why didn't you do them instead of Miss ules I done them both sir you must have been pretty busy why why what sir why were you so anxious to do that woman's chores Tom Robinson hesitated searching for an answer looked like she didn't have nobody to help her like I say with
• 408:00 - 408:30 Mr uul and seven children on the place boy well I say it looked like they never help her none you did all this chopping and work from sheer goodness boy tried to help her I say Mr Gilmer smiled grimly at the jury you are a mighty good fellow it seems did all this for not one penny yes sir I felt really sorry for her she seemed to try more than the rest of them you felt sorry for her you felt sorry for her Mr Gilmer seemed ready to
• 408:30 - 409:00 rise to the ceiling the witness realized his mistake and shifted uncomfortably in the chair but the damage was done below us nobody liked Tom Robinson's answer Mr Gilmer paused a long time to let it sink in now you went by the house as usual last November 2st he said and she asked you to come in and bust up a chifferobe no sir do you deny that you went by the house no sir she said she had something for me to do inside the house she says
• 409:00 - 409:30 she asked you to bust up a chifferobe is that right no sir it is not then you say she is lying boy attacus was on his feet but Tom Robinson did not need him I do not say she is lying Mr Gilmer I say she is mistaken in her mind to the next 10 questions as Mr Gilmer reviewed mayella's version of events the witness's steady answer was that she was mistaken in her mind did not Mr U run you off the place boy no sir I do not
• 409:30 - 410:00 think he did don't think what do you mean I mean I did not stay long enough for him to run me off you are very candid about this why did you run so fast I say I was scared sir if you had a clear conscience why were you scared like I said before it wasn't safe for any person to be in a situation like that but you weren't in a Fix You testified that you were resisting Miss uul were you so scared that she would hurt you you ran a big buck like you no
• 410:00 - 410:30 sir I scared I would be in court just like I am now scared of arrest scared you have to face up to what you did no sir scared I would have to face up to what I did not do are you being impudent to me boy no sir I didn't go to be this was as much as I heard of Mr Gilmer's cross-examination because gem made me take Dill out for some reason Dill had started crying and could not stop quietly at first then his sobs were
• 410:30 - 411:00 heard by several people in the balcon Jem said if I did not go with him he would make me and Reverend syy said I had better go so I went Dill had seemed to be all right that day nothing wrong with him but I guessed he had not fully recovered from running away ain't you feeling good I asked when we reached the bottom of the stairs Dill tried to pull himself together as we ran down the South steps Mr Link de was a lonely figure on the top step anything
• 411:00 - 411:30 happening Scout he asked as we went by no sir I answered over my shoulder Dill here he is sick come on out under the trees I said heat got you I expect we chose the fattest Live Oak and we sat under it it was just him I couldn't stand Dill said who Tom that old Mr Gilmer doing him that way talking so hateful to him Dill that is his job why if we didn't have prosecutors well we couldn't have defense attorneys I reckon
• 411:30 - 412:00 Dill EX hailed Patiently I know all that Scout it was the way he said it made me sick plain sick he is supposed to act that way Dill he was cross he did not act that way when Dill those were his own Witnesses well Mr Finch didn't act that way to Mella and old man uul when he cross-examined them the way that man called him boy all the time and sneered at him and looked around at the jury every time he answered well Dill after all he is just
• 412:00 - 412:30 a negro I do not care one spec it ain't right somehow it ain't right to do him that way hasn't anybody got any business talking like that it just makes me sick that is just Mr Gilmer's way Dill he does them all that way you have never seen him get good and down on one yet why when well today Mr Gilmer seemed to me like he was not half trying they do them all that way most lawyers I mean Mr
• 412:30 - 413:00 Finch does not he is is not an example Dill he is Dash I was trying to grope in my memory for a Sharp phrase of Miss mty Atkinson's I had it he is the same in the courtroom as he is on the public streets that is not what I mean said Dill I know what you mean boy said a voice behind us we thought it came from the tree trunk but it belonged to Mr Dolphus Raymond he peered around the trunk at us you aren't thin hided it just makes you sick doesn't it
• 413:00 - 413:30 thank you for choosing Audi book club please subscribe to the channel and share this video if you like content like this enjoy To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee part chapter 20 come on round here son I got something that will settle your stomach as Mr Dolphus Raymond was an evil man I accepted his invitation reluctantly but I followed Dill somehow
• 413:30 - 414:00 I didn't think attakus would like it if we became friendly with Mr Raymond and I knew Aunt Alexandra wouldn't here he said offering Dill his paper sack with straws in it take a good sip it will quieten you Dill sucked on the straws smiled and pulled at length he he said Mr Raymond evidently taking Delight in corrupting a child Dill you watch out now Dill released the straws and grinned Scout it is nothing but Coca-Cola Mr
• 414:00 - 414:30 Raymond sat up against the tree trunk he had been lying on the grass you little folks will not tell on me now will you it would ruin my reputation if you did you mean all you drink in that sack is Coca-Cola just plain Coca-Cola yes ma'am Mr Raymond nodded I liked his smell it was of leather horses cotton seed he wore the only English riding boots I had ever seen that is all I drink most of the time then you just pretend you are
• 414:30 - 415:00 half Dash I beg your pardon sir I caught myself I didn't mean to be Mr Raymond chuckled not at all offended and I tried to frame a discreet question why do you do like you do oh yes you mean why do I pretend well it is very simple he said some folks do not like the way I Live Now I could say the hell with them I do not care if they do not like it I do say I do not care if they do not like it right enough but I do not say the hell
• 415:00 - 415:30 with them see dill and I said no sir I try to give them a reason you see it helps folks if they can latch on to a reason when I come to town which is seldom if I weave a little and drink out of this sack folks can say Dolphus Raymond is in the clutches of whiskey that is why he will not change his ways he can't help himself that is why he lives the way he does that ain't honest Mr Raymond making yourself out bad than you are already it is not
• 415:30 - 416:00 honest but it is mighty helpful to folks secretly Miss Finch I am not much of a drinker but you see they could never never understand that I live like I do because that is the way I want to live I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it but he was fascinating I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself but why had he entrusted us with his deepest
• 416:00 - 416:30 seat secret I asked him why because you are children and you can understand it he said and because I heard that one he jerked his head at Dill things haven't caught up with that one's Instinct yet let him get a little older and he will not get sick and cry maybe things will strike him as being not quite right say but he will not cry not when he gets a few years on him cry about what Mr Raymond Dill's maess was beginning to
• 416:30 - 417:00 assert itself cry about the simple hell people give other people without even thinking cry about the hell white people give colored folks without even stopping to think that they are people too attakus says cheating a colored man is 10 times worse than cheating a white man I muttered says it is the worst thing you can do Mr Raymond said I do not reckon it is Miss jeene Louise you do not know your father's not a run-ofthe-mill man it will take a few
• 417:00 - 417:30 years years for that to sink in you have not seen enough of the world yet you haven't even seen this town but all you have to do is step back inside the courthouse which reminded me that we were missing nearly all of Mr Gilmer's cross-examination I looked at the sun and it was dropping fast behind the store Toops on the west side of the square between two fires I could not decide which I wanted to jump into Mr Raymond or the fifth Judicial Circuit
• 417:30 - 418:00 Court come on Dill I said you all right now yeah glad to have met you Mr Raymond and thanks for the drink it was mighty settling we raced back to the courthouse up the steps up two flights of stairs and edged our way along the balcony rail Reverend Sykes had saved our seats the courtroom was still and again I wondered where the babies were judge Taylor's cigar was a brown Speck in the center of his mouth Mr Gilmer was right writing on
• 418:00 - 418:30 one of the yellow pads on his table trying to outdo the court reporter whose hand was jerking rapidly shoot I muttered we missed it attakus was halfway through his speech to the jury he had evidently pulled some papers from his briefcase that rested beside his chair because they were on his table Tom Robinson was toying with them absence of any corroborative evidence this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life
• 418:30 - 419:00 I punched Jem how long has he been at it he just gone over the evidence Jem whispered and we are going to win Scout I do not see how we cannot he has been at it about 5 minutes he made it as plain and easy as well as I would have explained it to you you could have understood it even did Mr Gilmer dash sh nothing new just the usual hush now we looked down again attacus was speaking
• 419:00 - 419:30 easily with the kind of Detachment he used when he dictated a letter he walked slowly up and down in front of the jury and the jury seemed to be attentive their heads were up and they followed atticus's route with what seemed to be appreciation I guess it was because attacus wasn't a thunderer attakus paused then he did something he did not ordinarily do he unhitched his watch and chain and placed them on the table saying with the Court's permission
• 419:30 - 420:00 judge Taylor nodded and then attacus did something I never saw him do before or since in public or in private he unbuttoned his vest unbuttoned his collar loosened his tie and took off his coat he never loosened a scrap of his clothing until he undressed at bedtime and to Jem and me this was the equivalent of him standing before us Stark naked we exchanged horrified glances attakus put his hands in his pockets and
• 420:00 - 420:30 as he returned to the jury I saw his gold collar button and the tips of his pen and pencil winking in the light gentlemen he said Gemini again looked at each other attakus might have said Scout his voice had lost its aridity its Detachment and he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office Corner gentlemen he was saying I shall be brief but I would like to use my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one it
• 420:30 - 421:00 requires no minute sifting of complicated facts but it does require you to be sure beyond all Reasonable Doubt as to the guilt of the defendant to begin with this case should never have come to trial this case is as simple as black and white the state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place it has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose
• 421:00 - 421:30 evidence has not only been called into ser serious question on cross-examination but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant the defendant is not guilty but somebody in this courtroom is I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt I say guilt gentlemen because it was guilt that motivated her she has
• 421:30 - 422:00 committed no crime she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with she is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance but I cannot pity her she is white she knew full well the enormity of her offense but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking she persisted in breaking it she persisted and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us
• 422:00 - 422:30 have known at one time time or another she did something every child has done she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her but in this case she was no child hiding stolen Contraband she struck out at her victim of necessity she must put him away from her he must be removed from her presence from this world she must destroy the evidence of her offense what was the evidence of her offense Tom Robinson a human being she must put Tom Robinson
• 422:30 - 423:00 away from from her Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did what did she do she tempted a negro she was white and she tempted a negro she did something that in our society is unspeakable she kissed a black man not an old uncle but a strong young negro man no code mattered to her before she broke it but it came crashing down on her afterwards her father saw it and the defendant has testified as to his
• 423:00 - 423:30 remarks what did her father do we do not know but there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mela U was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left we do know in part what Mr uul did he did what any God-fearing persevering respectable white man would do under the circumstances he swore out a warrant no doubt signing it with his left hand and Tom Robinson now sits before you having taken the oath with the only good hand
• 423:30 - 424:00 he possesses his right hand and so a quiet respectable humble negro who had the unmitigated tarity to feel sorry for a white woman has had to put his word against two white peoples I need not remind you of their appearance and conduct on the stand you saw them for yourselves the witnesses for the state with the exception of the sheriff of makome County have presented themselves to you gentlemen to this court in the cynical confidence that their testimony
• 424:00 - 424:30 would not be doubted confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the Assumption the evil assumption that all Negroes lie that all Negroes are basically immoral beings that all negro men are not to be trusted around our women an assumption One Associates with minds of their caliber which gentlemen we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin a lie I do not have to point out to you you know the truth and the truth is this some black people
• 424:30 - 425:00 lie some black people are immoral some black men are not to be trusted around women black or white but this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men there is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie who has never done an immoral thing and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire attakus paused and took out his handkerchief then he took off his glasses and wiped them and we saw
• 425:00 - 425:30 another first we had never seen him sweat he was one of those men whose faces never perspired but now it was shining tan one more thing gentlemen before I quit Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us there is a tendency in this year of Grace 1935 for certain people to use this phrase out of
• 425:30 - 426:00 context to satisfy by all conditions the most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and Idol along with the industrious because all men are created equal educators will Gravely tell you the children Left Behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority we know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe some people are smarter than others some people have more opportunity because they are born
• 426:00 - 426:30 with it some men make more money than others some ladies make better cakes than others some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men but there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal there is one Human Institution that makes a popper the equal of a Rockefeller the stupid man the equal of an Einstein and the ignorant man the equal of any college president that institution gentlemen is a court it can be the
• 426:30 - 427:00 Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest Justice of the Peace court in the land or this honorable Court which you serve our courts have their faults as does Any Human Institution but in this country our courts are the great levelers and in our courts all men are created equal I am no idealist to believe firmly in the Integrity of our courts and in the jury system that is no ideal to me it is a living working reality gentlemen a court is no better
• 427:00 - 427:30 than each man of you sitting before me on this jury a court is only as sound as its jury and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard come to a decision and restore this defendant to his family in the name of God do your duty atticus's voice had dropped and as he turned away from the jury he said something I did not catch he said it
• 427:30 - 428:00 more to him self than to the court I punched Jem what did he say in the name of God believe him I think that is what he said Dill suddenly reached over me and tugged at Jem look a Yonder we followed his finger with sinking Hearts calpernia was making her way up the middle aisle walking straight toward attakus chapter 21 she stopped shyly at
• 428:00 - 428:30 the railing and waited to get judge Taylor's attention she was in a fresh apron and she carried an envelope in her hand judge Taylor saw her and said it is caleria is not it yes sir she said could I just pass this note to Mr Finch please sir it hasn't got anything to do with with the trial judge Taylor nodded and attacus took the envelope from calpernia he opened it read its contents and said judge I this note is from my sister she says my children are missing haven't
• 428:30 - 429:00 turned up since noon I could you I know where they are attakus Mr Underwood spoke up they are right up yonder in the colored balcony been there since precisely 1:18 p.m. Our Father turned around and looked up Jem come down from there he called then he said something to the judge we didn't hear we climbed across Reverend Sykes and made our way to the staircase attakus and calpernia met us downstairs calpernia looked PE D but
• 429:00 - 429:30 attakus looked exhausted Jem was jumping in excitement we have won have not we I have no idea said attakus shortly you have been here all afternoon go home with caleria and get your supper and stay home a attakus let us come back pleaded Jem please let us hear the verdict please sir the jury might be out and back in a minute we do not know but we could tell attakus was relenting well youve heard it all so you
• 429:30 - 430:00 might as well hear the rest tell you what you all can come back when you have eaten your supper eat slowly now you will not miss anything important and if the jury is still out you can wait with us but I expect it will be over before you get back you think they will acquit him that fast asked Jem attakus opened his mouth to answer but shut it and left us I prayed that re Reverend Sykes would save our seats for us but stopped praying when I remembered that people got up and left in droves
• 430:00 - 430:30 when the jury was out tonight they would overrun the drugstore the okay Cafe in the hotel that is unless they had brought their suppers too caleria marched us home Dash Skin every one of you alive the very idea you children listening to all that Mr gem do not you know better than to take your little sister to that trial Miss Alexandra will absolutely have a stroke of paralysis when she finds out ain't fitting for children to
• 430:30 - 431:00 hear the street lights were on and we glimpsed ceria's indignant profile as we passed beneath them Mr gem I thought you were getting some kind of head on your shoulders the very idea she is your little sister the very idea sir you ought to be perfectly ashamed of yourself ain't you got any sense at all I was exhilarated so many things had happened so fast I felt it would take years to sort them out and now here was calpernia giving
• 431:00 - 431:30 her precious gem down the country what new Marvels would the evening bring Jem was chuckling don't you want to hear about it Cal hush your mouth sir when you ought to be hanging your head in shame you go along laughing caleria revived a series of Rusty threats that moved gem to little remorse and she sailed up the front steps with her classic if Mr Finch does not wear you out I will get in that house sir Jem went in grinning and caleria nodded
• 431:30 - 432:00 tacit consent to have having Dill in to supper you all call Miss Rachel right now and tell her where you are she told him she is run distracted looking for you you watch out she does not ship you back to Meridian first thing in the morning Aunt Alexandra met us and nearly fainted when caleria told her where we were I guess it hurt her when we told her attakus said we could go back because she did not say a word during supper she just rearranged food on her plate looking at it sadly while caleria
• 432:00 - 432:30 served Jem dill and me with a Vengeance calpernia poured milk dished out potato salad and ham muttering ashamed of yourselves in varying degrees of intensity now you all eat slow Reverend Sykes had saved our places we were surprised to find that we had been gone nearly an hour and were equally surprised to find the courtroom exactly as we had left it with minor changes the jury box was empty the defendant was gone judge Taylor had been gone but he
• 432:30 - 433:00 reappeared as we were seating ourselves Nobody's moved hardly said Jim they moved around some when the jury went out said Reverend Sykes the men folk down there got the women folk their suppers and they fed their babies how long have they been out asked Jim about 30 minutes Mr Finch and Mr Gilmer did some more talking and judge Taylor charged the jury how was he asked Jim what say oh he did right well I am not complaining one
• 433:00 - 433:30 bit he was mighty fair-minded he sort of said if you believe this then you will have to return one verdict but if you believe this you will have to return another one I thought he was leaning a little to our side Dash Reverend syy scratched his head Jem smiled he is not supposed to lean Reverend but do not fret we have won it he said wisely don't see how any jury could convict on what we heard now do not you be so confident
• 433:30 - 434:00 Mr gem I have not ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man but gem took exception to Reverend Sykes and we were subjected to a lengthy review of The Evidence with Jem's ideas on the law regarding rape it was not rape if she let you but she had to be 18 in Alabama that is and Mella was 19 apparently you had to kick and holler you had to be overpowered and stomped on preferably knocked stone cold if you were under 18 you didn't not have to go
• 434:00 - 434:30 through all this Mr gem Reverend Sykes demurred this is not a polite thing for little ladies to hear ah she does not know what we are talking about said Jem Scout this is too old for you is it not it most certainly is not I know every word you are saying perhaps I was too convincing because Gem hushed and never discussed the subject again what time is it Reverend he asked getting on toward 8 I looked down and saw attakus strolling
• 434:30 - 435:00 around around with his hands in his pockets he made a tour of the windows then walked by the railing over to the jury box he looked in it inspected judge Taylor on his throne then went back to where he started I caught his eye and waved to him he acknowledged my salute with a nod and resumed his tour Mr Gilmer was standing at the windows talking to Mr Underwood Bert the court reporter was chain smoking he sat back with his feet on the table but the
• 435:00 - 435:30 officers of the Court the ones present attacus Mr Gilmer judge Taylor sound asleep and Bert were the only ones whose Behavior seemed normal I had never seen a packed courtroom so still sometimes a baby would cry out fretfully and a child would Scurry out but the grown people sat as if they were in church in the balcony the Negroes sat and stood around us with Biblical patience the Old Courthouse clock suffered its preliminary strain and struck the hour eight deafening bongs
• 435:30 - 436:00 that shook our bones when it bonged 11 times I was past feeling tired from fighting sleep I allowed myself a short nap against Reverend syk's comfortable arm and shoulder I jerked awake and made an honest effort to remain so by looking down and concentrating on the heads below there were 16 bald ones 14 men that could pass for redheads 40 heads varying between brown and black and I remembered something Jem had once explained to me when he went went
• 436:00 - 436:30 through a brief period of psychical research he said if enough people a stadium full maybe were to concentrate on one thing such as setting a tree a fire in the woods that the tree would ignite of its own accord I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free but thought if they were as tired as I it would not work Dill was sound asleep his head on jemk shoulder and Jem was quiet ain't it a long time I asked him
• 436:30 - 437:00 sure is Scout he said happily well from the way you put it it would just take 5 minutes Jem raised his eyebrows there are things you do not understand he said and I was too weary to argue but I must have been reasonably awake or I would not have received the impression that was creeping into me it was not unlike one I had last winter and I shivered though the night was hot the feeling grew until the atmosphere in the courtroom was exactly the same as a cold
• 437:00 - 437:30 February morning when the Mockingbirds were still and the Carpenters had stopped hammering on Miss mot's new house and every wood door in the neighborhood was shut as tight as the doors of the Radley place a deserted waiting Empty Street and the courtroom was packed with people a steaming summer night was no different from a winter morning Mr hect Tate who had entered the courtroom and was talking to attacus might have been wearing his high boots and lumber jacket
• 437:30 - 438:00 attakus had stopped his tranquil journey and had put his foot onto the Bottom Rung of a chair as he listened to what Mr Tate was saying he ran his hand slowly up and down his thigh I expected Mr Tate to say any minute take him Mr Finch but Mr Tate said this court will come to order in a voice that rang with authority and the heads below us jerked up Mr Tate left the room and returned with Tom Robinson he steered Tom to his
• 438:00 - 438:30 place beside attakus and stood there judge Taylor had roused himself to sudden alertness and was sitting up straight looking at the empty jury box what happened after that had a dreamlike quality in a dream I saw the jury return moving like underwater swimmers and judge Taylor's voice came from far away and was Tiny I saw something only a lawyer's child could be expected to see could be expected to watch for and it was like watching attacus walk into the
• 438:30 - 439:00 street raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty a jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted and when this jury came in not one of them looked at Tom Robinson the foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge I shut my eyes judge Taylor was pulling the jury guilty guilty guilty guilty I peaked at Jen his
• 439:00 - 439:30 hands were white from gripping the balcony Rail and his shoulders jerked as if each guilty was a separate stab between them judge Taylor was saying something his gavel was in his fist but he wasn't using it dimly I saw attakus pushing papers from the table into his briefcase he snapped it shut went to the court reporter and said something nodded to Mr Gilmer and then went to Tom Robinson and whispered something to him attakus put his hand on Tom's shoulder
• 439:30 - 440:00 as he whispered attakus took his coat off the back of his chair and pulled it over his shoulder then he left the courtroom but not by his usual exit he must have wanted to go home the short way because he walked quickly down the middle aisle toward the South exit I followed the top of his head as he made his way to the door he did not look up someone was punching me but I was reluctant to take my eyes from the people below us and from the image of atticus' lonely walked
• 440:00 - 440:30 down the aisle Miss John Louise I looked around they were standing all around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall the Negroes were getting to their feet Reverend syk's voice was as distant as judge Taylor's Miss John Lise stand up your father's passing chapter 22 it was Jem's Turn To Cry his face was stre with angry tears as we made our way through through the
• 440:30 - 441:00 cheerful crowd it ain't right he muttered all the way to the corner of the square where we found attakus waiting attakus was standing under the street light looking as though nothing had happened his vest was buttoned his collar and tie were neatly in place his watch chain glistened he was his impassive self again it ain't right adus said Jem no son it is not right we walked home Aunt Alexandra was waiting up she was in her dressing gown and I
• 441:00 - 441:30 could have sworn she had on her corset underneath it I'm sorry brother she murmured having never heard her call attakus brother before I stole a glance at Jem but he was not listening he would look up at attakus then down at the floor and I wondered if he thought attakus somehow responsible for Tom Robinson's conviction is he all right Auntie asked indicating gem he will be so presently said attakus it was a little too strong for him our father side I going to bed he said if I do not
• 441:30 - 442:00 wake up in the morning do not call me I didn't think it wise in the first place to let them this is their home sister said attakus we have made it this way for them they might as well learn to cope with it but they do not have to go to the courthouse and wallow in it it is just as much makome County as missionary teas adus Aunt Alexandra's eyes were anxious you are the last person I thought would turn bitter over this
• 442:00 - 442:30 I am not bitter just tired I am going to bed attacus said Jem bleakly he turned in the doorway what son how could they do it how could they I do not know but they did it they have done it before and they did it tonight and they will do it again and when they do it seems that only children weep good night but things are always better in the morning attacus Rose at his usual ungodly hour and was in the living room behind the mobile Reg
• 442:30 - 443:00 when we stumbled in Jem's mourning face posed the question his sleepy lips struggled to ask it is not time to worry yet attakus reassured him as we went to the dining room we are not through yet there will be an appeal you can count on that gracious alive Cal what is all this he was staring at his breakfast plate caleria said Tom Robinson's daddy sent you along this chicken this morning I fixed it you tell him I am proud to get
• 443:00 - 443:30 it bet they do not have chicken for breakfast at the White House what are these rolls said caleria aelle down at the hotel sent them attakus looked up at her puzzled and she said you better step out here and see what is in the kitchen Mr Finch we followed him the kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family hunks of salt pork Tomatoes beans even scuppernongs attacus grinned when he found a jar of pickled pigs knuckles
• 443:30 - 444:00 reckon Auntie will let me eat these in the dining room calpernia said this was all around the back steps when I got here this morning they they appreciate what you did Mr Finch they they aren't overstepping themselves are they atticus's eyes filled with tears he did not speak for a moment tell them I'm very grateful he said tell them tell them they must never do this again times are too hard he left the kitchen went in the dining room and excused himself to
• 444:00 - 444:30 Aunt Alexandra put on his hat and went to town we heard Dill's step in the hall so caleria left atticus' uneaten breakfast on the table between rabbit bites Dill told us of Miss Rachel's reaction to last night which was if a man like attacus Finch wants to butt his head against a stone wall it's his head I would have got her told growled Dill gnawing a chicken leg
• 444:30 - 445:00 but she did not look much like telling this morning said she was up half the night wondering where I was said she would have had the sheriff after me but he was at the hearing Dill you've got to stop going off without telling her said Jem it just aggravates her Dill sighed Patiently I told her till I was blue in the face where I was going she's just seeing too many snakes in the closet bet that woman drinks a pint for breakfast every morning I know
• 445:00 - 445:30 she drinks two glasses full Cena don't talk like that Dill said Aunt Alexandra it is not becoming to a child it's cynical I am not cynical Miss Alexandra telling the truth is not cynical is it the way you tell it it is Jem's eyes flashed at her but he said to Dill let's go you can take that Runner with you when we went to the front porch Miss Stephanie Crawford was busy telling it to miss motty ainson and Mr Avery they
• 445:30 - 446:00 looked around at us and went on talking gem made a feral noise in his throat I wished for a weapon I hate grown folks looking at you said Dill makes you feel like you have done something Miss motty yelled for Jem Finch to come there Jem groaned and heaved himself up from the swing we will go with you Dill said Miss Stephanie's nose quivered with curiosity she wanted to know who all gave us permission to go to court she didn't see us but it was all over town this morning
• 446:00 - 446:30 that we were in the colored balcony did attacus put us up there as a sort of question mark wasn't it right close up there with all those did Scout understand all the question mark did not it make us mad to see our daddy beat hush Stephanie Miss mot's diction was deadly I have not got all the morning to pass on the porch Jem Finch I called to find out if you and your colleagues can eat some cake got up at 5: to make it so
• 446:30 - 447:00 you better say yes excuse us Stephanie good morning Mr Avery there was a big cake and two little ones on Miss M's kitchen table there should have been three little ones it was not like Miss motty to forget dill and we must have shown it but we understood when she cut from the big cake and gave the slice to Jem as we ate we sensed that this was Miss mot's way of saying that as far as she was concerned nothing had changed she sat
• 447:00 - 447:30 quietly in a kitchen chair watching us suddenly she spoke do not fret Jem things are never as bad as they seem indoors when Miss motty wanted to say something lengthy she spread her fingers on her knees and settled her Bridge work this she did and we waited I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us your father is one of them oh said Jem well don't you ow well me sir miss m replied
• 447:30 - 448:00 recognizing jemk fatalistic noises you are not old enough to appreciate what I said Jem was staring at his half-eaten cake it is like being a caterpillar in a cocoon that is what it is he said like something asleep wrapped up in a warm place I always thought makome folks were the best folks in the world least that is what they seemed like we are the safest folks in the world said Miss motty we are so rarely called on to be Christians but when we are we have got
• 448:00 - 448:30 men like attacus to go for us Jem grinned ruul wish the rest of the county thought that you would be surprised how many of us do who who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson just who his colored friends for one thing and people like us people like judge Taylor people like Mr HEC Tate stop eating and start thinking gem did it ever strike you that judge Taylor naming attacus to defend that boy was no
• 448:30 - 449:00 accident that judge Taylor might have had his reasons for naming him this was a thought quarter pointed defenses were usually given to Maxwell green mak's latest addition to the bar who needed the experience Maxwell green should have had Tom Robinson's case you think about that Miss mty was saying it was no accident I was sitting there on the porch last night waiting I waited and waited to see you all come down the sidewalk and as I waited I thought
• 449:00 - 449:30 attakus Finch will not win he cannot win but he is the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that and I thought to myself well we are making a step it is just a baby step but it is a step it is all right to talk like that cannot any Christian judges and lawyers make up for Heathen juries Jem muttered soon as I get grown that is something you will have to take up with your father Miss mty said
• 449:30 - 450:00 we went down Miss M's cool new steps into the sunshine and found Mr Avery and Miss Stephanie Crawford still at it they had moved down the sidewalk and were standing in front of Miss Stephanie's house Miss Rachel was walking toward them I think I will be a clown when I get grown said Dill Gem and I stopped in our tracks yes sir a clown he said there ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh so I am going to join the circuit and laugh my head
• 450:00 - 450:30 off you got it backwards D said Jem clowns are sad it is folks that laugh at them well I am going to be a new kind of clown I am going to stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks just look a Yonder he pointed every one of them ought to be riding broomsticks Aunt Rachel already does Miss Stephanie and Miss Rachel were waving wildly at us in a way that did not give the lie to Dill's observation
• 450:30 - 451:00 oh gosh breathed Jem I reckon it would be ugly not to see them something was wrong Mr Avery was red in the face from a sneezing spell and nearly blew us off the sidewalk when we came up Miss Stephanie was trembling with excitement and Miss Rachel caught Dill's shoulder you get on in the backyard and stay there she said there is danger a coming is it a matter I asked ain't you heard yet it is all over town at that moment Aunt Alex Andra came to the door and
• 451:00 - 451:30 called us but she was too late it was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us this morning Mr Bob uul stopped attacus on the post office Corner spat in his face and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life chapter 23 I wish Bob uell would not chew tobacco was all attakus said about it according to miss Stephanie Crawford however attakus was leaving the post office when Mr Ule approached him
• 451:30 - 452:00 cursed him spat on him and threatened to kill him Miss Stephanie who by the time she had told it twice was there and had seen it all passing by from the Jitney jungle she was Miss Stephanie said attakus didn't bat an eye just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr Ule call him names Wild Horses could not bring her to repeat Mr U was a veteran of an obscure war that plus atticus' peace ful
• 452:00 - 452:30 reaction probably prompted him to inquire Too Proud to fight you nigger-loving bastard Miss Stephanie said attakus said no too old put his hands in his pockets and strolled on Miss Stephanie said you had to hand it to attakus Finch he could be right dry sometimes Gem and I did not think it entertaining after all though I said he was the deadest shot in the county one time he could you know he would not carry a gun Scout he has not even got one said Jem you know he did
• 452:30 - 453:00 not even have one down at the jail that night he told me having a gun around is an invitation to somebody to shoot you this is different I said we can ask him to borrow one we did and he said nonsense Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to atticus's better nature might work after all we would starve if Mr UL killed him besides we would be raised exclusively by Aunt Alexandra and we all knew the first she would do before
• 453:00 - 453:30 attakus was under the ground good would be to Fire caleria Gem said it might work if I cried and flung a fit being young and a girl that didn't work either but when he noticed us dragging around the neighborhood not eating taking little interest in our normal Pursuits attakus discovered How Deeply frightened we were he tempted Jem with a new football magazine one night when he saw Jem flip the pages and toss it aside he said what is bothering you son Jem came to the
• 453:30 - 454:00 point Mr uul what has happened nothing's happened we are scared for you and we think you ought to do something about him attakus smiled Riley do what put him under a peace Bond when a man says he's going to get you looks like he means it he meant it when he said it said attakus Jem see if you can stand in Bob ul's shoes a minute I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial if he had had any to begin with the man had to
• 454:00 - 454:30 have some kind of comeback His Kind always does so if spitting in my face and threatening me saved mayela ual one extra beating that is something I will gladly take he had to take it out on somebody and I would rather it be me than that house full of children out there you understand gem nodded Aunt Alexandra entered the room as attakus was saying we do not have anything to fear from Bob eell he got it all out of his system that
• 454:30 - 455:00 morning I would not be so sure of that attacus she said his kind would do anything to pay off a grudge you know how those people are what on Earth could you will do to me sister something furtive Aunt Alexandra said you may count on that nobody has much chance to be furtive in makome attakus answered after that we were not afraid summer was melting away and we made the most of it attacus assured us that nothing would happen to Tom Robinson until the higher
• 455:00 - 455:30 Court reviewed his case and that Tom had a good chance of going free or at least of having a new trial he was at Enfield Prison Farm 70 Mi away in Chester County I asked attakus if Tom's wife and children were allowed to visit him but attakus said no if he loses his appeal I asked one evening what will happen to him he will go to the chair said attakus unless the governor commutes his sentence not time to worry yet Scout we
• 455:30 - 456:00 have got a good chance Jem was sprawled on the sofa reading Popular Mechanics he looked up it is not right he didn't kill anybody even if he was guilty he didn't take anybody's life you know rape is a capital offense in Alabama said attakus yes sir but the jury did not have to give him death if they wanted to they could have given him 20 years given said attakus Tom Robinson is a colored man gem no jury in this part of the world is going to say we think you are guilty but
• 456:00 - 456:30 not very on a charge like that it was either a straight acquit or nothing Jem was shaking his head I know it is not right but I cannot figure out what is wrong maybe rape should not be a capital offense attakus dropped his newspaper beside his chair he said he did not have any quarrel with the rape statute none whatever but he did have deep misgivings when the state asked for and the jury gave a death penalty on Purely
• 456:30 - 457:00 circumstantial evidence he glanced at me saw I was listening and made it easier I mean before a man is sentenced to death for murder say there should be one or two eyewitnesses someone should be able to say yes I was there and saw him pull the trigger but lots of folks have been hung hanged on circumstantial evidence said Jem I know and lots of them probably deserved it too but in the absence of eyewitnesses there is always a doubt sometimes times only the shadow
• 457:00 - 457:30 of a doubt the law says Reasonable Doubt but I think a defendant is entitled to the shadow of a doubt there is always the possibility no matter how improbable that he is innocent then it all goes back to the jury then we ought to do away with juries gem was adamant attakus tried hard not to smile but could not help it you are rather hard on us son I think maybe there might be a better way change the law change it so that only
• 457:30 - 458:00 judges have the power of fixing the penalty in capital cases then go up to Montgomery and change the law you would be surprised how hard that would be I won't live to see the law changed and if you live to see it you will be an old man this was not good enough for Gem no sir they ought to do away with juries he wasn't guilty in the first place and they said he was if you had been on that jury son and 11 other boys like you Tom would be a free man said attacus so far
• 458:00 - 458:30 nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process those are 12 reasonable men in everyday life Tom's jury but you saw something come between them and reason you saw the same thing that night in front of the jail when that crew went away they did not go as reasonable men they went because we were there there is something in our world that makes men lose their heads they could not be fair if they tried in our
• 458:30 - 459:00 courts when it is a white man's word against a black man's the white man always wins they are ugly but those are The Facts of Life does not make it right said Jem stolidly he beat his fist Softly on his knee you just cannot convict a man on evidence like that you cannot you could not but they could and did the older you grow the more of it you will see the one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom be he any color of the rainbow
• 459:00 - 459:30 but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box as you grow older you will see white men cheat black men every day of your life but let me tell you something and do not you forget it whenever a white man does that to a black man no matter who he is how rich he is or how fine a family he comes from that white man is trash attakus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears I looked up and his face was vent there is nothing more
• 459:30 - 460:00 sickening to me than a lowgrade white man who will take advantage of a negro's ignorance don't fool yourselves it is all adding up and one of these days we are going to pay the bill for it I hope it is not in your children's time gem was scratching his head suddenly his eyes widened attakus he said why do not people like us and miss m ever sit on juries you never see anybody from makome on a jury they all come from out in the woods attacus leaned back in his rocking
• 460:00 - 460:30 chair for some reason he looked pleased with gem I was wondering when that would occur to you he said there are lots of reasons for one thing Miss mty cannot serve on a jury because she is a woman you mean women in Alabama can't Dash question mark I was indignant I do I guess it is to protect our frail ladies from sorted cases like Tom's besides attacus grinned I doubt if we would ever get a complete case tried the ladies
• 460:30 - 461:00 would be interrupting to ask questions Gemini laughed Miss motty on a jury would be impressive I thought of old Mrs Dubose in her wheelchair stop that rapping John Taylor I want to ask this man something perhaps our forefathers were wise attakus was saying with people like us that is our share of the bill we generally get the juries we deserve our Stout makome citizens are not interested in the first place in the second place
• 461:00 - 461:30 they are afraid then they are afraid why asked Jem well what if say Mr Link de had to decide the amount of damages to a ward say miss mty when Miss Rachel ran over her with a car link would not like the thought of losing either lady's business at his store would he so he tells judge Taylor that he cannot serve on the jury because he does not have anybody to keep store for him while he is gone so judge Taylor excuses him sometimes he excuses him wrathfully what
• 461:30 - 462:00 would make him think either one of them would stop trading with him I asked Jem said Miss Rachel would miss mty would not but a jury's vote is secret Atticus Our Father chuckled you have many more miles to go son a jury's vote is supposed to be secret serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something men do not like to do that sometimes it is unpleasant tomk jury sure made up its
• 462:00 - 462:30 mind in a hurry Jem muttered attacus 's fingers went to his watch pocket no it didn't he said more to himself than to us that was the one thing that made me think well this may be the shadow of a beginning that jury took a few hours an inevitable verdict maybe but usually it takes them just a few minutes this time he broke off and looked at us you might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down in the beginning he was raring for an
• 462:30 - 463:00 outright acquittal who Jem was astonished attakus eyes twinkled it is not for me to say but I will tell you this much he was one of your old sarum friends one of the cunninghams gem yelped one of I didn't recognize any of them you are joking he looked at attakus from the corners of his eyes one of their connections on a hunch I did not strike him just on a hunch could have but I did not golly Moses gem said reverently one
• 463:00 - 463:30 minute they are trying to kill him and the next they are trying to turn him loose I will never understand those folks as long as I live attakus said you just had to know them he said the cunninghams had not taken anything from or off of anybody since they migrated to the new world he said the other thing about them was once you earned their respect they were for you tooth and nail attakus said he had a feeling nothing
• 463:30 - 464:00 more than a suspicion that they left the jail that night with considerable respect for the finches then too he said it took a thunderbolt plus another Cunningham to make one of them change his mind if we had two of that crowd we would have had a hung jury Jem said slowly you mean you actually put on the jury a man who wanted to kill you the night before how could you take such a risk attakus how could you when you analyze it there was little risk there is no difference between one man who is
• 464:00 - 464:30 going to convict and another man who is going to convict is there there is a faint difference between a man who is going to convict and a man who is a little Disturbed in his mind is not there he was the only uncertainty on the whole list what kin was that man to Mr Walter Cunningham I asked attacus Rose stretched and yawned it was not even our bedtime but we knew he wanted a chance to read his newspaper he picked it up folded it and
• 464:30 - 465:00 tapped my head let us see now he droned to himself I have got it double first cousin how can that be two sisters married two brothers that's all I will tell you dash you figure it out I tortured myself and decided that if I married jeem and Dill had a sister whom he married our children would be double first cousins G manetti Jem I said when attakus had gone they are funny folks did you hear that auntie auntie Alexandra was hooking a rug and not
• 465:00 - 465:30 watching us but she was listening she sat in her chair with her work basket beside it her rug spread across her lap why ladies hooked Woolen rugs on Boiling nights never became clear to me I heard it she said I remembered the distant disastrous occasion when I rushed to Young Walter Cunningham's defense now I was glad I had done it soon school starts I'm going to ask Walter home to dinner I planned having for gotten my private resolve to beat him up the next
• 465:30 - 466:00 time I saw him he can stay over sometimes after school too attakus could drive him back to Old serum maybe he could spend the night with us sometime okay Jem we will see about that Aunt Alexandra said a declaration that with her was always a threat never a promise surprised I turned to her why not Auntie they are good folks she looked at me over her sewing glasses Jean Louise there is no doubt in my mind mind that they are good folks but they are not our
• 466:00 - 466:30 kind of folks Jem says she means they are yappy Scout what is a Yap ah they like fiddling and things like that well I do too don't be silly John Louise said Aunt Alexandra the thing is you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines you can put him in shoes and a new suit but he will never be like gem besides there is a drinking streak in that family a mile wide Finch women are not interested in that sort of people Auntie
• 466:30 - 467:00 said Jem she ain't nine yet she may as well learn it now Aunt Alexandra had spoken I was reminded vividly of the last time she had put her foot down I never knew why it was when I was absorbed with plans to visit ceria's house I was curious and interested I wanted to be her company to see how she lived and who her friends were I might as well have wanted to see the other side of the moon this time the tactics were different but Anne Alexandra's aim was
• 467:00 - 467:30 the same perhaps this was why she had come to live with us to help us choose our friends I would hold her off as long as I could if they are good folks then why canot I be nice to Walter I didn't say not to be nice to him you should be friendly and polite to him you should be gracious to everybody dear but you do not have to invite him home what if he was kin to us Auntie the fact is that he is not kin to us us but if he were my
• 467:30 - 468:00 answer would be the same Auntie Jem spoke up adus says you can choose your friends but you sure can't choose your family and they are still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge them or not and it makes you look right silly when you do not that is your father all over again said Aunt Alexandra and I still say that John Louise will not invite Walter Cunningham to this house if he were her double first cousin once removed he would still not be received in this
• 468:00 - 468:30 house unless he comes to see attacus on business now that is that she had said indeed not but this time she would give her reasons but I want to play with Walter Auntie why can't I she took off her glasses and stared at me I will tell you why she said because he is trash that's why you cannot play with him I will not have you around him picking up his habits and learning Lord knows what you are enough of a problem to your father as it is I do not know
• 468:30 - 469:00 what I would have done but Jem stopped me he caught me by the shoulders put his arm around me and led me sobbing in Fury to his bedroom attakus heard us and poked his head around the door it is all right sir Jem said gruffly it is not anything attacus went away have a chew Scout Jem dug into his pocket and extracted a tootsie roll it took a few minutes to work the candy into a comfortable wad inside my jaw gem was rearranging the objects on his
• 469:00 - 469:30 dresser his hair stuck up behind and down in front and I wondered if it would ever look like a man's maybe if he shaved it off and started over his hair would grow back neatly in place his eyebrows were becoming heavier and I noticed a new slimness about his body he was growing taller when he looked around he must have thought I would start crying again for he said show you something if you won't tell anybody I said what he unbuttoned his shirt grinning shyly
• 469:30 - 470:00 well what well can't you see it well no well it is hair where there right there he had been a comfort to me so I said it looked lovely but I did not see anything it is real nice gem under my arms too he said going out for football next year Scout do not let Auntie aggravate you it seemed only yesterday that he was telling me not to aggravate Auntie you know she is not used to girls said gem least ways not girls like you she is
• 470:00 - 470:30 trying to make you a lady cannot you take up sewing or something hell no she does not like me that is all there is to it and I do not care it was her calling Walter Cunningham trash that got me going gem not what she said about being a problem to attakus we got that all straight one time I asked him if I was a problem and he said not much of one at most one that he could always figure out and not to worry my head a second about bothering
• 470:30 - 471:00 him no it was Walter that boy is not trash gem he ain't like the ules Jem kicked off his shoes and swung his feet to the bed he propped himself against a pillow and switched on the reading light you know something Scout I have got it all figured out now I have thought about it a lot lately and I have got it figured out there is four kinds of folks in the world there is the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors there is the
• 471:00 - 471:30 kind like the cunninghams out in the woods the kind like the ews down at the dump and the Negroes what about the Chinese and the Cajun Down Yonder in Baldwin County I mean in makome County the thing about it is our kind of folks do not like the cunninghams the cunninghams do not like the eels and the ews hate and despise the colored folks I told Jem if that was so then why didn't Tom's jury made up of folks like the Cunningham acquit Tom to spite the ules gem waved
• 471:30 - 472:00 my question away as being infantile you know he said I have seen adus Pat his foot when there is fiddling on the radio and he loves pot liquor better than any man I ever saw then that makes us like the cunninghams I said I can't see why Auntie no let me finish it does but we are still different somehow adus said one time the reason Auntie is so hipped on the family is because all we have got is background and not a dime to our
• 472:00 - 472:30 names well gem I do not know attacus told me one time that most of this old family stuff is foolishness because everybody's family is just as old as everybody else's I said did that include the colored folks and Englishmen and he said yes background does not mean old family said Jem I think it is how long your family has been reading and writing Scout I have studied this real hard and that is the only reason I can think of somewhere along when the finches were in
• 472:30 - 473:00 Egypt one of them must have learned a hieroglyphic or two and he taught his boy gem laughed imagine Auntie being proud that her great granddaddy could read and write ladies pick funny things to be proud of well I am glad he could or who would have taught attakus and them and if attakus could not read you and I would be in a fix I do not think that is what background is Jem well then how do you explain why the cunninghams are different Mr Walter can hardly sign
• 473:00 - 473:30 his name I have seen him we have just been reading and writing longer than they have no everybody's got to learn nobody's born knowing that Walter's as smart as he can be he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy nothing is wrong with him no Jem I think there is just one kind of folks folks Jem turned around and punched his pillow when he settled back his face was cloudy he was going into one of his declines
• 473:30 - 474:00 and I grew wary his brows came together his mouth became a thin line he was silent for a while that is what I thought too he said at last when I was your age if there is just one kind of folks why cannot they get along with each other if they are all alike why do they go out of their way to despise each other Scout I think I am beginning to understand something I think I am beginning to understand why bu r stayed shut up in the house all this time it is
• 474:00 - 474:30 because he wants to stay inside chapter 24 calpernia wore her stiffest starched apron she carried a tray of Charlotte she backed up to the swinging door and pressed gently I admired the ease and Grace with which she handled heavy loads of dainty things so did Aunt Alexandra I guess because she had let calper serve today August
• 474:30 - 475:00 was on the brink of September Dill would be leaving for Meridian tomorrow today he was off with Jem at Barker's Eddie Jem had discovered with angry amazement that nobody had ever bothered to teach Dill how to swim a skill gem considered necessary as walking they had spent two afternoons at the creek they said they were going in naked and I could not come so I divided the lonely hours between calpernia and miss mty today Aunt Alexandra and her missionary Circle were
• 475:00 - 475:30 fighting the good fight all over the house from the kitchen I heard Mrs Grace Merryweather giving a report in the living room on the squalid lives of the munas it sounded like to me they put the women out in Huts when their time came whatever that was they had no sense of family I knew that would distress atie they subjected children to terrible ordeals when they were 13 they were crawling with yaws and ear worms they chewed up and spat out the bark of a
• 475:30 - 476:00 tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it immediately thereafter the ladies adjourned for Refreshments I didn't know whether to go into the dining room or stay out Aunt Alexandra told me to join them for Refreshments it was not necessary that I attend the business part of the meeting she said it would bore me I was wearing my pink Sunday dress shoes and a pedico and reflected that if I spilled anything caleria would have to wash my dress
• 476:00 - 476:30 again for tomorrow this had been a busy day for her I decided to stay out can I help you Cal I asked wishing to be of some service caleria paused in the doorway you be still as a mouse in that corner she said and you can help me load up the trays when I come back the gentle hum of ladyes voices grew louder as she opened the door why Alexandra I never saw such Charlotte just love I never can get my crust like this never
• 476:30 - 477:00 can who would have thought of little Dewberry Tarts calpernia who would have thought it anybody tell you that the preacher's wife's no well she is and that other one not walking yet they became quiet and I knew they had all been served calpernia returned and put my mother's heavy silver picture on a tray this coffee picture is a curiosity she murmured they do not make them these days can I carry
• 477:00 - 477:30 it in if you careful and do not drop it set it down at the end of the table by Miss Alexandra down there by the cups and things she is going to pour I tried pressing my behind against the door as caleria had done but the door did not budge grinning she held it open for me careful now it is heavy don't look at it and you won't spill it my journey was successful Aunt Alexandra smiled brilliant ly stay with us John Louise
• 477:30 - 478:00 she said this was a part of her campaign to teach me to be a lady it was customary for every Circle Hostess to invite her neighbors in for Refreshments be they Baptists or Presbyterians which accounted for the presence of Miss Rachel's sober as a judge miss motty and miss Stephanie Crawford rather nervous I took a seat beside Miss motty and wondered why ladies put on their hats to go across the street ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension
• 478:00 - 478:30 and a firm desire to be elsewhere but this feeling was what Aunt Alexandra called being spoiled the ladies were cool in fragile pastel prints most of them were heavily powdered but uned the only lipstick in the room was Tangi natural CC's Naturals sparkled on their fingernails but some of the younger ladies wore Rose they smelled Heavenly I sat quietly having conquered My Hands by tightly gripping the arms of the chair and waited for someone to speak to me
• 478:30 - 479:00 Miss mot's gold bridgew work twinkled you are Mighty dressed up Miss Jean Louise she said where are your britches today under my dress I had not meant to be funny but the ladies laughed my cheeks grew hot as I realized my mistake but miss motty looked Gravely down at me she never laughed at me unless I meant to be funny in the sudden silence that followed Miss Stephanie Crawford called from across the room what you going to
• 479:00 - 479:30 be when you grow up Jean Louise a lawyer gome I had not thought about it I answered grateful that Miss Stephanie was kind enough to change the subject hurriedly I began Choosing My vocation nurse Aviator well why shoot I thought you wanted to be a lawyer you have already commenced going to court the ladies laughed again that's Stephanie's a card somebody said Miss Stephanie was encouraged to pursue the subject don't
• 479:30 - 480:00 you want to grow up to be a lawyer miss mot's hand touched mine and I answered mildly enough n just a lady Miss Stephanie eyed me suspiciously decided that I meant no impertinence and contented herself with well you will not get very far until you start wearing dresses more often miss mot's hand closed tightly on mine and I said nothing its warmth was enough Mrs Grace Mar weather sat on my left and I felt it would be polite to
• 480:00 - 480:30 talk to her Mr Merryweather a faithful Methodist under duress apparently saw nothing personal in singing Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a Wretch like Me it was the General opinion of makome however that Mrs Merryweather had sobered him up and made a reasonably useful citizen of him for certainly Mrs Merryweather was the most devout lady in makome I searched for a topic of interest to her her what did you all study this afternoon I asked oh
• 480:30 - 481:00 child those poor munas she said and was off few other questions would be necessary Mrs merryweather's large brown eyes always filled with tears when she considered the oppressed living in that jungle with nobody but Jay Grimes Everett she said not a white person will go near them but that saintly J Grimes Everett Mrs Merryweather played her voice like an organ every word she said received its full measure the poverty
• 481:00 - 481:30 the darkness the immorality nobody but Jay Grimes Everett knows you know when the church gave me that trip to the campgrounds Jay Grimes Everett said to me was he there ma'am I thought home on leave Jay Grimes Everett said to me he said Mrs Merryweather you have no conception no conception of what we are fighting over there that is what he said to me yes ma'am I said to him Mr Everett
• 481:30 - 482:00 I said the ladies of the makome Alabama Methodist Episcopal Church South are behind you 100% that is what I said to him and you know right then and there I made a pledge in my heart I said to myself when I go home I'm going to give a course on the munas and bring Jay Grimes Everett's message to makome and that's just what I am doing yes ma'am when Mrs Merryweather shook her head her black curls jiggled Jean Louise she said you are a fortunate
• 482:00 - 482:30 girl you live in a Christian home with Christian folks in a Christian Town out there in Jay Grimes Everett's land there is nothing but sin and squalor yes ma'am sin and squalor what was that Gertrude Mrs Merryweather turned on her Chimes for the lady sitting beside her oh that well I always say forgive and forget forgive and forget thing that church ought to do is help her lead a Christian Life for those children from
• 482:30 - 483:00 here on out some of the men ought to go out there and tell that preacher to encourage her excuse me Mrs Merryweather I interrupted are you all talking about mayel at U all may no child that dy's wife Tom's wife Tom Das Robinson ma'am Mrs Merryweather turned back to her neighbor there is one thing I truly believe Gertrude she continued but some people just do not see it my way if we just let them know we forgive them that
• 483:00 - 483:30 we have forgotten it then this whole thing will blow over ah Mrs Merryweather I interrupted once more what will blow over again she turned to me Mrs Merryweather was one of those childless adults who find it necessary to assume a different tone of voice when speaking to Children nothing John Louise she said in stately Largo the cooks and field hands are just dissatisfied but they are settling down now they grumbled all next day after that trial Mrs Merryweather
• 483:30 - 484:00 faced Mrs Pharaoh Gertrude I tell you there is nothing more distracting than a sulky their mouths go down to hear just ruins your day to have one of them in the kitchen you know what I said to my Sophie Gertrude I said Sophie I said you simply are not being a Christian today Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining and you know it did her good she took took her eyes off that floor and said gome is
• 484:00 - 484:30 Merryweather Jesus never went around grumbling I tell you Gertrude you never ought to let an opportunity go by to witness for the Lord I was reminded of the ancient little organ in the chapel at Finch's Landing when I was very small and if I had been very good during the day attacus would let me pump its Bellows while he picked out a tune with one finger the last note would linger as long as there was air to sustain it Mrs Merryweather had run out of air I judged
• 484:30 - 485:00 and was replenishing her Supply while Mrs Pharaoh composed herself to speak Mrs Pharaoh was a splendidly built woman with pale eyes and narrow feet she had a fresh permanent wave and her hair was a mass of tight gray ringlets she was the second most devout lady in makome she had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound s isg Grace she saidit is just like I was telling brother Hudson the
• 485:00 - 485:30 other day s brother Hudson I said looks like we are fighting a losing battle a losing battle I said it does not matter to them one bit we can educate them till we are blue in the face we can try till we drop to make Christians out of them but there is no lady safe in her bed these nights he said to me Mrs Pharaoh I do not know what we are coming to down here I told him that was certainly a fact Miss Mrs Merryweather nodded wisely her voice soared over the clink of
• 485:30 - 486:00 coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the ladies munching their dainties Gertrude she said I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town good but misguided folks in this town who think they are doing right I mean and now far be it from me to say who but some of them in this town thought they were doing the right thing a while back but all they did was Stir them up that is all they did might have looked
• 486:00 - 486:30 like the right thing to do at the time I'm sure I do not know I'm not R in that field but sulky dissatisfied I tell you if my Sophie had kept it up another day I would have let her go it is never entered that wool of hers that the only reason I keep her is because this depression is on and she needs her dollar and a quarter every week she can get it his food does not stick going down does it Miss mty said it two tight lines had appeared at the corners of her mouth
• 486:30 - 487:00 she had been sitting silently beside me her coffee cup balanced on one knee I had lost the threat of conversation long ago when they quit talking about Tom Robinson's wife and had contented myself with thinking of Finch's Landing in the river Aunt Alexandra had got it backwards the business part of the meeting was blood curdling the Social Hour was dreary myty I am sure sure I do not know what you mean said Mrs
• 487:00 - 487:30 Merryweather I sure you do Miss motty said shortly she said no more when Miss motty was angry her brevity was icy something had made her deeply angry and her gray eyes were as cold as her voice Mrs Merryweather rened glanced at me and looked away I could not see Mrs Pharaoh Aunt Alexandra got up from the table and swiftly passed more Refreshments neatly engaging Mrs Merryweather and Mrs gates in bris conversation when she had them well on
• 487:30 - 488:00 the road with Mrs Perkins Aunt Alexandra stepped back she gave miss mty a look of pure gratitude and I wondered at the world of women Miss mty and Aunt Alexandra had never been especially close and here was Auntie silently thanking her for something for what I knew not I was content to learn that Aunt Alexandra could be pierced sufficiently to feel gratitude for help given there was no doubt about it I must soon enter this world where on its surface fragrant
• 488:00 - 488:30 ladies rocked slowly fanned gently and drank cool water but I was more at home in My Father's World people like Mr hect Tate did not trap you with Innocent questions to make fun of you even gem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them but I liked them there was something about them no matter how much they cussed and
• 488:30 - 489:00 drank and gambled and chewed no matter how undelectable they were there was something about them that I instinctively liked they weren't Hypocrites Mrs Perkins born Hypocrites Mrs Merryweather was saying at least we do not have that sin on our shoulders down here people up there set them free but you do not see them sitting at the table with them at least we do not have the deceit to say to them yes you are as good as we are
• 489:00 - 489:30 but stay away from us down here we just say you live your way and we will live ours I think that woman that Mrs Roosevelt has lost her mind just plain lost her mind coming down to Birmingham and trying to sit with them if I was the mayor of Birmingham I would Dash well neither of us was the mayor of Birmingham but I wished I was the governor of Alabama for one day I would let Tom Robinson go so quick that the missionary society would not have time to catch its breath calper was telling
• 489:30 - 490:00 Miss Rachel's cook the other day how bad Tom was taking things and she didn't stop talking when I came into the kitchen she said there wasn't a thing attakus could do to make being shut up easier for him that the last thing he said to attakus before they took him down to the prison camp was Goodbye Mr Finch there isn't anything you can do now so there isn't any use trying calper IA said attakus told her that the day they took Tom to prison he
• 490:00 - 490:30 just gave up hope she said attakus tried to explain things to him and that he must do his best not to lose hope because attakus was doing his best to get him free Miss Rachel's cook asked calpernia why didn't attacus just say yes you will go free and leave it at that seemed like that would be a big big Comfort to Tom caleria said because you are not familiar with the law first thing you learn when you are in a lawing family is that there is not any definite
• 490:30 - 491:00 answers to anything Mr Finch couldn't say something is so when he doesn't know for sure it is so the front door slammed and I heard atticus's Footsteps in the hall automatically I wondered what time it was not nearly time for him to be home and on missionary Society days he usually stayed downtown until black dark he stopped in the doorway his hat was in his hand and his face was white excuse me ladies he said go right ahead with
• 491:00 - 491:30 your meeting do not let me disturb you Alexandra could you come to the kitchen a minute I want to borrow calpernia for a while he didn't go through the dining room but went down the back hallway and entered the kitchen from the rear door Aunt Alexandra and I met him the dining room door opened again and Miss motty joined us calper had half risen from her chair Cal attakus said I want you to go with me out to Helen
• 491:30 - 492:00 Robinson's house what is the matter Aunt Alexandra asked alarmed by the look on my father's face Tom's dead Aunt Alexandra put her hands to her mouth they shot him said atus he was running it was during their exercise period they said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started climbing over right in front of them did not they try to stop him did not they give him any warning Aunt
• 492:00 - 492:30 Alexandra's voice shook oh yes the guards called to him to stop they fired a few shots in the air then to kill they got him just as he went over the fence they said if he had had two good arms he would have made it he was moving that fast 17 bullet holes in him they didn't have to shoot him that much Cal I want you to come out with me and help me tell Helen yes sir she murmured fumbling at her apron Miss
• 492:30 - 493:00 motty went to caleria and untied it this is the last straw attacus an Alexandra said depends on how you look at it he said what was one negro more or less among 200 of them he wasn't Tom to them he was an escaping prisoner attacus leaned against the refrigerator pushed up his glasses and rubbed his eyes we had such a good chance he said I told him what I thought but I could not in truth say that we had more than a good
• 493:00 - 493:30 chance I guess Tom was tired of white men's chances and preferred to take his own ready Cal question mark yes here Mr Finch then let's go Aunt Alexandra sat down in ceria's chair and put her hands to her face she sat quite still she was so quiet I wondered if she would faint I heard miss m breathing as if she had just climbed the steps and in the dining room the ladies chattered happily I thought Aunt Alexander was crying but
• 493:30 - 494:00 when she took her hands away from her face she was not she looked weary she spoke and her voice was flat I can't say I approve of everything he does mty but he's my brother and I just want to know when this will ever end her voice Rose it tears him to pieces he does not show it much but it tears him to pieces I have seen him when what else do they want from him mty what else what does who want Alexandra Miss motty asked I
• 494:00 - 494:30 mean this town they are perfectly willing to let him do what they are too afraid to do themselves it might lose them a nickel they are perfectly willing to let him wreck his health doing what they are afraid to do they are be quiet they will hear you said Miss motty have you ever thought of it this way Alexandra whether makome knows it or not we are paying the highest tribute we can pay a man we trust him to do right it is that simple who Aunt Alexandra never knew she
• 494:30 - 495:00 was echoing her 12-year-old nephew the handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked white only the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody not just us the handful of people with enough humility to think when they look at a negro they're but for the Lord's kindness am I miss mot's old crispness was returning the handful of people in this town with background that's who they are had I been attentive I would have
• 495:00 - 495:30 had another scrap to add to Gem's definition of background but I found myself shaking and couldn't stop I had seen Enfield prison farm and attacus had pointed out the exercise yard to me it was the size of a football field stop that shaking commanded Miss motty and I stopped get up Alexandra we have left them long enough Aunt Alexandra Rose and smoothed the very ious whalebone ridges along her hips she took her handkerchief
• 495:30 - 496:00 from her belt and wiped her nose she patted her hair and said do I show it not a sign said Miss mty are you together again John Louise yes ma'am then letun join the ladies she said grimly their voices swelled When Miss motty opened the door to the dining room Aunt Alexandra was ahead of me and I saw her head go up as she went through the door oh Mrs Perkins she said you need some more coffee let me get it calper is
• 496:00 - 496:30 on an errand for a few minutes Grace said Miss motty let me pass you some more of those DeBerry Tarts do you hear what that cousin of mine did the other day the one who likes to go fishing and so they went down the row of laughing women around the dining room refilling coffee cups dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing calpernia the gentle hum began again yes sir Mrs Perkins that Jay Grimes Everett is a
• 496:30 - 497:00 martyred Saint he needed to get married so they ran to the beauty parlor every Saturday afternoon soon as the sun goes down he goes to bed with the chickens a crate full of sick chickens Fred says that is what started it all Fred says Aunt Alexandra looked across the room at me and smiled she looked at a tray of cookies on the table and nodded at them I carefully picked up the tray and
• 497:00 - 497:30 watched myself walk to Mrs Merryweather with my best company manners I asked her if she would have some after all if Auntie could be a lady at a time like this so could I chapter 25 don't do that Scout set him out on the back steps gem are you crazy I said set him out on the back steps sighing I scooped up the small creature placed him on the bottom step and went
• 497:30 - 498:00 back to my cot September had come but not a trace of cool weather with it and we were still sleeping on the back screen porch lightning bugs were still about the nightcrawlers and flying insects that beat against the screen the summer long had not gone wherever they go when Autumn comes a roly poly had found his way inside the house I reasoned that the tiny varint had crawled up the steps and under the door I was putting my book on the floor beside my cot when I saw him
• 498:00 - 498:30 the creatures are no more than an inch long and when you touch them they roll themselves into a tight gray ball I lay on my stomach reached down and poked him he rolled up then feeling safe I suppose he slowly unrolled he traveled a few inches on his hundred legs and I touched him again he rolled up feeling sleepy I decided to end things my hand was going down on him when gem spoke Jem was scowling it was probably a part of the
• 498:30 - 499:00 stage he was going through and I wished he would hurry up and get through it he was certainly never cruel to animals but I had never known his charity to embrace the insect World why couldn't I mash him I asked because they do not bother you Jem answered in the darkness he had turned out his reading light reckon you are at the stage now where you do not kill flies and mosquitoes now I reckon let me know when you change your mind
• 499:00 - 499:30 tell you one thing though I am not going to sit around and not scratch a red bug a dry up he answered drowsily Jem was the one who was getting more like a girl every day not I comfortable I lay on my back and waited for sleep and while waiting I thought of Dill he had left us the first of the month with firm assurances that he would return the minute school was out he guessed his folks had got the general idea that he liked to spend his summers in
• 499:30 - 500:00 makome Miss Rachel took us with them in the taxy to makome Junction and Dill waved to us from the train window until he was out of sight he was not out of mind I missed him the last two days of his time with us gem had taught him to swim taught him to swim I was wide awake remembering what Dill had told me Barker's Eddie is at the end of a dirt road off the Meridian Highway about a mile from town it is easy to catch a ride down the highway on a cotton wagon
• 500:00 - 500:30 or from a passing motorist and the short walk to the creek is easy but the prospect of walking all the way back home at dusk when the traffic is light is tiresome and swimmers are careful not to stay too late according to Dill he and Jem had just come to the highway when they saw attacus driving toward them he looked like he had not seen them so they both waved attakus finally slowed down when they caught up with him
• 500:30 - 501:00 he said you would better catch a ride back I won't be going home for a while calpernia was in the back seat Jem protested then pleaded and attakus said all right you can come with us if you stay in the car on the way to Tom Robinson's attakus told them what had happened they turned off the highway rode Slowly by the dump and passed the ual residents down the Narrow Lane to the Negro cabins Dill said a crowd of black children were playing marbles in
• 501:00 - 501:30 Tom's front yard attakus parked the car and got out caleria followed him through the front gate Dill heard him ask one of the children where is your mother Sam and heard Sam say she is down at CIS Stevens's Mr Finch want me to run and fetch her Dill said attakus looked uncertain then he said yes and Sam scampered off go on with your game boys attakus said to the children a little girl came to the cabin door and stood looking at
• 501:30 - 502:00 attakus Dill said her hair was a wad of tiny stiff pigtails each ending in a bright bow she grinned from ear to ear and walked toward our father but she was too small to navigate the steps Dill said attakus went to her took off his hat and offered her his finger she grabbed it and he eased her down the steps then he gave her to caleria Sam was trotting behind his mother when they came up dill said Helen said evening Mr
• 502:00 - 502:30 Finch won't you have a seat but she didn't say anymore neither did attakus Scout said Dill she just fell down in the dirt just fell down in the dirt like a giant with a big foot just came along and stepped on her just ump Dash Dill's fat foot hit the ground like you would step on an ant Dill said calpernia and attakus lifted Helen to her feet and half carried half walked her to the cabin they stayed inside a long time and
• 502:30 - 503:00 attakus came out alone when they drove back by the dump some of the ews hollered at them but Dill did not catch what they said makome was interested by the news of Tom's death for perhaps 2 days two days was enough for the information to spread through the county did you hear about no well they say he was running fit to beat lightning to makome Tom's death was typical typical of a person to cut and run
• 503:00 - 503:30 typical of a person's mentality to have no plan no thought for the future just run blind at the first chance he saw funny thing attakus Finch might have got him off scott-free but wait question mark hell no you know how they are Easy Come Easy Go just shows you that Robinson boy was legally married they say he kept himself clean went to church and all that but when it comes down to the line the veneer is mighty thin always comes out in them a few
• 503:30 - 504:00 more details enabling The Listener to repeat his version in turn then nothing to talk about until the makome Tribune appeared the following Thursday there was a brief obituary in the colored news but there was also an editorial Mr B B Underwood was at his most bitter and he could not have cared less who canceled advertising and subscriptions but make didn't play that way Mr Underwood could holler till he sweated and write whatever he wanted to
• 504:00 - 504:30 he would still get his advertising and subscriptions if he wanted to make a fool of himself in his paper that was his business Mr Underwood did not talk about miscarriages of Justice he was writing so children could understand Mr Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples be they standing sitting or escaping he likened Tom's death to the senseless Slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children and
• 504:30 - 505:00 makome thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in the Montgomery Advertiser how could this be so I wondered as I read Mr Underwood's editorial senseless killing Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death he had been tried openly and convicted by 12 good men and true my father had fought for him all the way then Mr Underwood's meaning became became clear attakus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom
• 505:00 - 505:30 Robinson but in the secret courts of men's Hearts attakus had no case Tom was a dead man the minute mayella uul opened her mouth and screamed the name uul gave me a queasy feeling makome had lost no time in getting Mr U's views on Tom's demise and passing them along through that English Channel of Gossip Miss Stephanie Crawford Miss Stephanie told Aunt Alex Andra in Gem's presence oh foot he's old enough to listen that Mr UL said it made
• 505:30 - 506:00 one down and about two more to go gem told me not to be afraid Mr Ule was more hot gas than anything Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to attakus if in any way I let attakus know I knew gem would personally never speak to me again chapter 26 school started and so did our daily trips past the Radley Place Jem was in the seventh grade and
• 506:00 - 506:30 went to high school beyond the grammar school building I was now in the third grade and our routines were so different I only walked to school with Jem in the mornings and saw him at meal times he went out for football but was too slender and Too Young yet to do anything but carry the team water buckets this he did with enthusiasm most afternoons he was seldom home before dark the Radley Place had ceased to terrify me but it was no less gloomy no
• 506:30 - 507:00 less chilly under its Great Oaks and no less uninviting Mr Nathan Radley could still be seen on a clear day walking to and from town we knew Buu was there for the same old reason nobody had seen him carried out yet I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse when passing by the old place at ever having taken part in What must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters delivering greetings on the end of a fishing pole wandering in his
• 507:00 - 507:30 collards at night and yet I remembered two Indian Head pennies chewing gum soap dolls a rusty metal a broken watch and chain gem must have put them away somewhere I stopped and looked at the tree one afternoon the trunk was swelling around its cement patch the patch itself was turning yellow we had almost seen him a couple of times a good enough score for any body but I still looked for him each time I went by maybe
• 507:30 - 508:00 someday we would see him I imagined how it would be when it happened he would just be sitting in the swing when I came along heedy do Mr Arthur I would say as if I had said it every afternoon of my life evening John Louise he would say as if he had said it every afternoon of my life write pretty spell we are having is not it yes sir right pretty I would say and go on it was was only a fantasy we would never see him he probably did go
• 508:00 - 508:30 out when the moon was down and gaze upon Miss Stephanie Crawford I would have picked somebody else to look at but that was his business he would never gaze at us you are not starting that again are you said attakus one night when I expressed a stray desire just to have one good look at bu Radley before I died if you are I will tell you right now stop it I am too old to go chasing you off the Radley property besides it is dangerous you might get shot you know Mr
• 508:30 - 509:00 Nathan shoots at every shadow he sees even Shadows that leave size four bare Footprints you were lucky not to be killed I hushed then and there at the same time I marveled at attakus this was the first he had let us know he knew a lot more about something than we thought he knew and it had happened years ago no only last summer summer before last when time was playing tricks on me I must
• 509:00 - 509:30 remember to ask Jem so many things had happened to us bu Radley was the least of our fears attakus said he did not see how anything else could happen that things had a way of settling down and after enough time passed people would forget that Tom Robinson's existence was ever brought to their attention perhaps attakus was right but the events of the summer hung over us like smoke in a closed room the adults in makome never discussed the case with
• 509:30 - 510:00 jeem and me it seemed that they discussed it with their children and their attitude must have been that neither of us could help having attacus for a parent so their children must be nice to us in spite of him the children would never have thought that up for themselves had our classmates been left to their own devices Jem and I would have had several Swift satisfying fist fights a piece and ended the matter for good as it was we were compelled to hold
• 510:00 - 510:30 our heads high and be respectively a gentleman and a lady in a way it was like the era of Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose without all her yelling there was one odd thing though that I never understood in spite of atticus's shortcomings as a parent people were content to reelect him to the state legislature that year as usual without opposition I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar I withdrew from them and never thought about them until I was forced to I was
• 510:30 - 511:00 forced to one day in school once a week we had a current events period each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper absorb its contents and reveal them to the class this practice allegedly overcame a variety of evils standing in front of his fellows encouraged good posture and gave a child Poise delivering a short talk made him word conscious learning his current event strengthened his memory being singled out made him more than ever
• 511:00 - 511:30 anxious to return to the group The idea was profound but as usual in makome it did not work very well in the first place few rural children had access to newspapers so the burden of current events was borne by the town children convincing the bus children more deeply that the town children got all the attention anyway the rural children who could usually brought clippings from what called the grit paper a publication spurious in the eyes of Miss Gates our
• 511:30 - 512:00 teacher why she frowned when a child recited from the grit paper I never knew but in some way it was associated with liking fiddling eating syrupy biscuits for lunch being a Holy Roller singing sweetly sings the donkey and pronouncing it Dunkey all of which the state paid teachers to discourage even so not many of the children knew what a current event was little Chuck little 100 years old in his knowledge of cows and their habits was halfway through an uncle nachel story
• 512:00 - 512:30 when Miss Gates stopped him Charles that is not a current event that is an advertisement cesil Jacobs knew what one was though when his turn came he went to the front of the room and began old Hitler Adolf Hitler cile said Miss Gates one never begins with old anybody yes ma'am he said old Adolf Hitler has been Prosecuting the the dash persecuting sisle noome Miss Gates it says here well
• 512:30 - 513:00 anyway old Adolf Hitler has been after the Jews and he is putting them in prisons and he is taking away all their property and he will not let any of them out of the country and he is washing all the feeble-minded and washing the feeble-minded yes ma'am Miss Gates I reckon they do not have sense enough to wash themselves I do not reckon an idiot could keep himself clean well anyway Hitler has started a program to round up all the half Jews too and he wants to
• 513:00 - 513:30 register them in case they might want to cause him any trouble and I think this is a bad thing and that is my current event very good sisle said Miss Gates puffing cile returned to his seat a hand went up in the back of the room how can he do that who do what asked Miss Gates Patiently I mean how can Hitler just put a lot of folks in a pen like that looks like the government would stop him said the owner of the hand Hitler is the government said Miss Gates and seizing
• 513:30 - 514:00 an opportunity to make education Dynamic she went to the Blackboard she printed democracy in large letters democracy she said does anybody have a definition us somebody said I raised my hand remembering an old campaign slogan attakus had once told me about what do you think it means John louiz equal rights for all special privileges for none I quoted very good John louiz very good Miss Gates smiled in front of
• 514:00 - 514:30 democracy she printed we are a now class say it all together we are a democracy we said it then miss Gates said that is the difference between America and Germany we are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship dictatorship she said over here we do not believe in persecuting anybody persecution comes from people who are prejudiced pre she enunciated carefully there are no better people in the world than the Jews
• 514:30 - 515:00 and why Hitler does not think so is a mystery to me an inquiring soul in the middle of the room said why don't they like the Jews you reckon Miss Gates I do not know Henry they contribute to every society they live in and most of all they are a deeply religious people Hitler is trying to do away with religion so maybe he does not like them for that reason sisle spoke up well I do not know for certain he said they are supposed to change money or something
• 515:00 - 515:30 but that is not any cause to persecute them they are white aren't they miss Gates said when you get to high school sisle you will learn that the Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of History even driven out of their own country it is one of the most terrible stories in history time for arithmetic children as I had never liked arithmetic I spent the period looking out the window the only time I ever saw attakus
• 515:30 - 516:00 scowl was when Elmer Davis would give us the latest on Hitler attakus would snap off the radio and say h I asked him once why he was impatient with Hitler and attakus said because he is a maniac this would not do I mused as the class proceeded with its sums one maniac and millions of German folks looked to me like they had shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut up there was something else wrong Dash I would ask my father about it I did and he said he
• 516:00 - 516:30 could not possibly answer my question because he did not know the answer but it is okay to hate Hitler it is not he said it is not okay to hate anybody attacus I said there is something I do not understand Miss Gates said it was awful Hitler doing like he does she got real red in the face about it I should think she would but Dash yes nothing sir I went away not sure that I could explain to attakus what was on my mind
• 516:30 - 517:00 not sure that I could clarify what was only a feeling perhaps gem could provide the answer gem understood school things better than attakus gem was worn out from a day's water carrying there were at least 12 banana peels on the floor by his bed surrounding an empty milk bottle what are you stuffing for I asked coach says if I can gain gain 25b by year after next I can play he said this is the
• 517:00 - 517:30 quickest way if you do not throw it all up Jem I said I want to ask you something shoot he put down his book and stretched his legs Miss Gates is a nice lady isn't she why sure I liked her when I was in her room she hates Hitler a lot what is wrong with that well she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews Like That Jem it is not right to persecute anybody is it I mean have mean thoughts about anybody even is it
• 517:30 - 518:00 gracious no Scout what is eating you well coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was she was going down the steps in front of us you must not have seen her she was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford I heard her say it is time somebody taught them a lesson they were getting way above themselves and the next thing they think they can do is marry us Jem how can you hate Hitler so bad and then turn around and be ugly about
• 518:00 - 518:30 folks right at home Jem was suddenly Furious he leaped off the bed grabbed me by the collar and shook me I never want to hear about that Courthouse again ever ever you hear me you hear me don't you ever say one word to me about it again you hear now go on I was too surprised to cry I crept from Jem's room and shut the door softly lest UND do noise set him off again suddenly tired I wanted attakus he was in the living room and I
• 518:30 - 519:00 went to him and tried to get in his lap attakus smiled you are getting so big now I will just have to hold a part of you he held me close Scout he said softly do not let Jem get you down he is having a rough time these days I heard you back there attakus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while until enough time passed then he would be able to think
• 519:00 - 519:30 about it and sort things out when he was able to think about it gem would be himself again chapter 27 things did settle down after a fashion as attacus said they would by the middle of October only two small things out of the ordinary happened to two makome citizens no there were three things and they did not directly concern us the finches but in a way they did the first thing was that Mr
• 519:30 - 520:00 Bob Ule Acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the 1930s he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the works progress administration for laziness I suppose his brief burst of Fame brought on a briefer burst of industry but his job lasted only as long as his notoriety Mr uul found himself as forgotten as Tom Robinson thereafter he resumed his
• 520:00 - 520:30 regular weekly appearances at the welfare office for his check and received it with no Grace amid obscure mutterings that the bastards who thought they ran this town would not permit an honest man to make a living Ruth Jones the welfare lady said Mr Ule openly accused attakus of getting his job she was upset enough to walk down to atticus's office and tell him about it attakus told Miss Ruth not to fret that if Bob uul wanted to discuss attakus is
• 520:30 - 521:00 getting his job he knew the way to the office the second thing happened to Judge Taylor judge Taylor was not a Sunday night churchgoer Mrs Taylor was Judge Taylor savored his Sunday night hour alone in his big house and church time found him holed up in his study reading the writings of Bob Taylor no kin but the judge would have been proud to claim it one Sunday night lost in fruity metaphors and fluid diction judge
• 521:00 - 521:30 Taylor's attention was wrenched from the Page by an irritating scratching noise hush he said to Anne Taylor his fat nondescript dog then he realized he was speaking to an empty room the scratching noise was coming from the rear of the house judge Taylor clumped to the back porch to let Anne out and found the screen door swinging open a shadow on the corner of the house caught his eye and and that was all he saw of his visitor Mrs Taylor came home from church
• 521:30 - 522:00 to find her husband in his chair lost in the writings of Bob Taylor with a shotgun across his lap the third thing happened to Helen Robinson Tom's Widow if Mr Ule was as forgotten as Tom Robinson Tom Robinson was as forgotten as bu Radley but Tom was not forgotten by his employer Mr Link de Mr Link de made a job for Helen he didn't really need her but he said he felt really bad about the way things turned out I never knew who took care of her children while
• 522:00 - 522:30 Helen was away calpernia said it was hard on Helen because she had to walk nearly a mile out of her way to avoid the uleles who according to Helen chunked at her the first time she tried to use the public road Mr Link de eventually received the impression that Helen was coming to work each morning from the wrong direction and dragged the reason out of her just let it be Mr Link please sir Helen begged the hell I will said Mr Link he
• 522:30 - 523:00 told her to come by his store that afternoon before she left she did and Mr Link closed his store put his hat firmly on his head and walked Helen home he walked her the short way by the 's apostrophe s on his way back Mr Link stopped at the crazy gate e will question mark he called I say e will exclamation mark the windows normally packed with children were empty I know every last one of you is in there a
• 523:00 - 523:30 laying on the floor now hear me Bobby W will if I hear one more peep out of my girl Helen about not being able to walk this road I will have you in jail before Sundown Mr Link spat in the dust and walked home Helen went to work next morning and used the public road nobody chunked at her but when she was a few yards beyond the Ule house she looked around and saw Miss Mr U walking behind her she turned and walked on and Mr uul
• 523:30 - 524:00 kept the same distance behind her until she reached Mr Link de's house all the way to the house Helen said she heard a soft voice behind her cuning foul words thoroughly frightened she telephoned Mr Link at his store which was not too far from his house as Mr Link came out of his store he saw Mr uul leaning on the fence Mr uul said don't don't you look at me link D's like I was dirt I ain't jumped your dash first thing you can do U will is get
• 524:00 - 524:30 your stinking carcass off my property you are leaning on it and I cannot afford fresh paint for it second thing you can do is stay away from my cook or I will have you up for assault I am not touched her link de and am not about to go with no you do not have to touch her all you have to do is make her afraid and if assault is not enough to keep you locked up a while I will get you in on the ladies law so get out of my sight if you do not think I mean it
• 524:30 - 525:00 just bother That Girl Again Mr Ule evidently thought he meant it for Helen reported no further trouble I don't like it adus I don't like it at all was Aunt Alexandra's assessment of these events that man seems to have a permanent running grudge against everybody connected with that case I know how that kind are about paying off grudges but I do not understand why he should Harbor one he had his way in court did not he I
• 525:00 - 525:30 think I understand said attakus it might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in makome really believed his and mayella's Yarns he thought he would be a hero but all he got for his pain was was okay we will convict this Negro but get back to your dump he has had his fling with about everybody now so he ought to be satisfied he will settle down when the weather changes but why should he try to burgle
• 525:30 - 526:00 John Taylor's house he obviously did not know Jon was home or he would not have tried only lights Jon shows on Sunday nights are on the front porch and back in his den you do not know if Bob you will cut that screen you do not know who did it said attakus but I can guess I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool all the time e was on the St understand I couldn't dare look at Jon and keep a straight face Jon looked at him as if he were a
• 526:00 - 526:30 three-legged chicken or a square egg don't tell me judges do not try to Prejudice juries attakus chuckled by the end of October Our Lives had become the familiar routine of school play and study gem seemed to have put out of his mind whatever it was he wanted to forget and our classmates mercifully let us forget our father's eccentricities C Jacobs asked me one time if attakus was a radical when I asked attakus attakus was so amused I
• 526:30 - 527:00 was rather annoyed but he said he was not laughing at me he said you tell cesil I am about as radical as cotton Tom Hein an Alexandra was thriving Miss motty must have silenced the whole missionary Society at one blow for auntie again ruled that Roost her Refreshments grew even more delicious I learned more about the poor muna's social life from listening to Mrs Merryweather they had so little sense of family that the whole tribe was one big
• 527:00 - 527:30 family a child had as many Fathers as there were men in the community as many mothers as there were women Jay Grimes Everett was doing his utmost to change this state of affairs and desperately needed our prayers makome was itself again precisely the same as last year and the year before that with only two minor changes firstly people had removed from their store windows and Automobiles the stickers that said n-h we do our
• 527:30 - 528:00 part I asked attacus why and he said it was because the National Recovery Act was dead I asked who killed it he said nine old men the second change in makome since last year was not one of national significance until then Halloween in makome was a completely unorganized Affair each child did what he wanted to do with assistant from other children if there was anything to be moved such as placing a light buggy on top of the
• 528:00 - 528:30 Livery stable but parents thought things went too far last year when the piece of Miss tutty and Miss fruy was shattered Mrs Tutti and fruti barber were Maiden ladies sisters who lived together in the only makome residence boasting a Sellar the barber ladies were rumored to be Republicans having migrated from Clanton Alabama in 1911 their ways were strange to us and why they wanted a seller nobody knew but they wanted one and they dug one and
• 528:30 - 529:00 they spent the rest of their lives chasing generations of children out of it Mrs Tutti and fru their names were Sarah and Francis aside from their Yankee ways were both deaf Miss Tutti denied it and lived in a world of Silence but miss fruti not about to miss anything employed an ear trumpet so enormous that gem declared it was a loudspeaker from one of those dog victrolas with these facts in mind and Halloween at hand some Wicked children
• 529:00 - 529:30 had waited until the Mrs Barber were thoroughly asleep slipped into their living room nobody but the Radley locked up at night stealthily made away with every stick of furniture therein and hid it in the cellar I deny having Taken part in such a thing I heard them was the cry that awoke the Mrs Barber's Neighbors at dawn next morning her heard them drive a truck up to the door stomped around like horses they are in
• 529:30 - 530:00 New Orleans by now miss toy was sure those traveling fur sellers who came through town two days ago had perined their Furniture dark they were she said Mr Hecate was summoned he surveyed the area and said he thought it was a local job Miss fruy said she would know a makome voice anywhere and there were no makome voices in that parlor last night rolling their RS all over her premises they were nothing less than the blood
• 530:00 - 530:30 hounds must be used to locate their Furniture Miss tutty insisted so Mr Tate was obliged to go 10 miles out the road round up the county hounds and put them on the trail Mr Tate started them off at the Mrs Barber's front steps but all they did was run around to the back of the house and howl at the Cellar Door when Mr Tate set them in motion three times he finally guessed the truth by noon time that day there was not a barefooted child to be seen in makome
• 530:30 - 531:00 and nobody took off his shoes until the hounds were returned so the makome ladies said things would be different this year the High School auditorium would be open there would be a pageant for the grown-ups apple bobbing Taffy pulling pinning the tail on the donkey for the children there would also be a prize of 25 cents for the best Halloween costume created by the wearer Jem and I both groaned not that we would ever done
• 531:00 - 531:30 anything it was the principle of the thing Jem considered himself too old for Halloween anyway he said he would not be caught anywhere near the high school at something like that oh well I thought attacus would take me I soon learned however that my services would be required on stage that evening Mrs Grace Merryweather had composed an original pageant in entitled makome County at Astra per aspar and I was to be a ham she thought it would be
• 531:30 - 532:00 adorable if some of the children were costume to represent the County's agricultural products Cecil Jacobs would be dressed up to look like a cow Agnes Boon would make a lovely Butterbean another child would be a peanut and on Down the Line until Mrs merryweather's imagination and the supply of children were exhausted our only duties as far as I could gather from our our two rehearsals were to enter from stage left as Mrs Merryweather not only the author but
• 532:00 - 532:30 also the narrator identified us when she called out pork that was my cue then the assembled company would sing make County makome County we will always be true to thee as the grand finale and Mrs Merryweather would Mount the stage with the state flag my costume was not much of a problem Mrs khaw the local seamstress had as much imagination as Mrs Merryweather Mrs kensaw took some chicken wire and bent it into the shape of a cured ham this she covered with
• 532:30 - 533:00 brown cloth and painted it to resemble the original I could duck under and someone would pull the contraption down over my head it came almost to my knees Mrs kensaw thoughtfully left two peep holes for me she did a fine job Jem said I looked exactly like a ham with legs there were several discomforts though it was hot it was a close fit if my nose itched I could not scratch and once inside I could not get out of it alone
• 533:00 - 533:30 when Halloween came I assumed that the whole family would be present to watch me perform but I was disappointed attakus said as tactfully as he could that he just did not think he could stand a Pageant tonight he was all in he had been in Montgomery for a week and had come home late that afternoon he thought gem might escort me if I asked him Aunt Alexandra said she just had to get to bed early she had been decorating the stage all afternoon and was worn out she
• 533:30 - 534:00 stopped short in the middle of her sentence she closed her mouth then opened it to say something but no words came is matter Auntie oh nothing nothing she said somebody just walked over my grave she put away from her whatever it was that gave her a pin prick of apprehension and suggested that I give the family a preview in the living room so Jem squeezed me into my costume stood at the living room door called out po
• 534:00 - 534:30 orc exactly as Mrs Merryweather would have done and I marched in attakus and Aunt Alexandra were delighted I repeated my part for calpernia in the kitchen and she said I was wonderful I wanted to go across the street to show Miss motty but gem said she would probably be at the pageant anyway after that it didn't matter whether they went or not Jem said he would take me thus began our longest journey
• 534:30 - 535:00 together chapter 28 the weather was unusually warm for the last day of October we didn't even need jackets the wind was growing stronger and Gem said it might be raining before we got home there was no moon the street light on the corner cast sharp Shadows on the Radley house I heard Jem laugh Softly bet nobody bothers them tonight he said Jem was carrying my ham costume rather
• 535:00 - 535:30 awkwardly as it was hard to hold I thought it Gallant of him to do so it is a scary place though is it not buo does not mean anybody any harm but I am right glad you are along you know attacus would not let you go to the Schoolhouse by yourself gem said don't see why it's just around the corner and across the yard that yard's a mighty long place for little girls to cross at night gem teased aren't you scared of haints we laughed HTS hot steams
• 535:30 - 536:00 incantations secret signs had vanished with our years as Mist with Sunrise what was that old thing Jem said Angel bright life and death get off the road do not suck my breath cut it out now I said we were in front of the Radley Place Jem said Buu must not be at home listen high above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in Blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in plunging from the shrill key key
• 536:00 - 536:30 of the sunflower bird to the irascible quaak of a blue jay to the sad lament of poor will poor will poor will we turned the corner and I tripped on a route growing in the road Jem tried to help me but all he did was drop my costume in the dust I didn't fall though and soon we were on our way again we turned off the road and entered the schoolyard it was Pitch Black how do you know where we are at Jem I asked when we had gone a few steps I can tell we are under the
• 536:30 - 537:00 Big Oak because we are passing through a cool spot careful now and do not fall again we had slowed to a cautious gate and we feeling our way forward so as not to bump into the tree the tree was a single and ancient Oak two children could not reach around its trunk and touch hands it was far away from teachers their spies and curious neighbors it was near the Radley lot but the Radley were not curious a
• 537:00 - 537:30 small patch of Earth beneath its branches was packed hard from many fights and furtive crap games the lights in the High School auditorium were blazing in the distance but they blinded us if anything don't look ahead Scout Jem said look at the ground and you won't fall you should have brought the flashlight gem did not know it was this dark did not look like it would be this dark earlier in the evening so cloudy that is why it will hold off a while
• 537:30 - 538:00 though someone leaped at us God Almighty Jem yelled a circle of light burst in our faces and cile Jacobs jumped in Glee behind it ha gotcha he shrieked thought you would be coming along this way what are you doing way out here by yourself boy ain't you scared of BU Radley cile had ridden safely to the auditorium with his parents had not seen us then had ventured down this far because he knew good and well we would be coming along
• 538:00 - 538:30 he thought Mr Finch would be with us though Shucks isn't much but around the corner said Jem who is scared to go around the corner we had to admit that cile was pretty good though he had given us a fright and he could tell it all over the school house that was his privilege say I said ain't you a cow tonight where is your costume it is up behind the stage he said Mrs Merryweather says the pageant is not coming on for a while you can put yours
• 538:30 - 539:00 back of the stage by mine Scout and we can go with the rest of them this was an excellent idea gem thought he also thought it a good thing that cile and I would be together this way gem would be left to go with people his own age when we reached the auditorium the whole town was there except attakus and the ladies worn out from decor in and the usual outcasts and shins most of the county it seemed was there the hall was teaming
• 539:00 - 539:30 with slicked up country people the high school building had a wide downstairs hallway people milled around booths that had been installed along each side oh Jem I forgot my money I sighed when I saw them attakus did not Jem said here is 30 cents you can do six things see you later on okay I said quite content with 30 cents in Cecil I went with cile down to the front of the auditorium through a door on one side and backstage
• 539:30 - 540:00 I got rid of my ham costume and departed in a hurry for Mrs Merryweather was standing at a Lecter in front of the first row of seats making last minute frenzied changes in the script how much money you got I asked Cecil cisil had 30 cents too which made us even we squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors which scared us not at all we entered the black seventh grade room and were LED around by the temporary ghoul in Residence and were
• 540:00 - 540:30 made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being here is his eyes we were told when we touched two peeled grapes on a saucer here is his heart which felt like raw liver these are his innards and our hands were thrust into a plate of cold spaghetti cile and I visited several booths we each bought a sack of Mrs judge Taylor's homemade divinity I wanted to Bob for apples but Cecil said
• 540:30 - 541:00 it was not sanitary his mother said he might catch something from everybody's heads having been in the same tub ain't anything around town now to catch but cile said his mother said it was unsanitary to eat after folks I later asked Aunt Alexandra about this and she said people who held such views were usually climbers we were about to purchase a block Bob of Taffy when Mrs merryweather's Runners appeared and told us to go backstage it was time to get
• 541:00 - 541:30 ready the auditorium was filling with people the makome County High School band had assembled in front below the stage the stage foot lights were on and the red velvet curtain rippled and billowed from the scurrying going on behind it backstage cesil and I found the narrow hallway teaming with people adults in homemade Three Corner hats Confederate caps Spanish American war hats and World War helmets children dressed as various agricultural Enterprises crowded around the one small
• 541:30 - 542:00 window somebody's mashed my costume I wailed in dismay Mrs Merryweather galloped to me reshaped the chicken wire and thrust me inside you all right in there Scout asked cile you sound so far off like you were on the other side of a hill you do not sound any nearer I said the band played the national anthem and we heard the audience rise then the bass drum sounded Mrs Merryweather stationed behind her
• 542:00 - 542:30 lectern beside the band said makome County at asra per Aspera the bass drum boomed again that means said Mrs Merryweather translating for The Rustic elements from the mud to the Stars she added unnecessarily it seemed to me a pageant reckon they would not know what it was if she did not tell them whispered sisil who was immediately shushed the whole town knows it I breathed but the country folks have come in cile said be quiet back there a man's
• 542:30 - 543:00 voice ordered and we were silent the bass drum went boom with every sentence Mrs Merryweather uttered she chanted mournfully about makome County being older than the state that it was a part of the Mississippi and Alabama territories that the first white man to set foot in the Virgin forests was the probate judge's great-grandfather five times removed who was never heard of again then came The Fearless Colonel makome For Whom the county was named
• 543:00 - 543:30 Andrew Jackson appointed him to a position of authority and Colonel mak's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars Colonel makome persevered in his efforts to make the region safe for democracy but his first campaign was his last his orders were laid to him by a friendly Indian Runner were to move South after Consulting a tree to ascertain from its lyen which way was
• 543:30 - 544:00 south and taking no lip from The subordinates Who ventured to correct him Colonel makome set out on a purposeful journey to Route the enemy and entangled his troops so far Northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving Inland Mrs Merryweather gave a 30-minute description of Colonel mom's exploits I discovered that if I bent my knees I could tuck them under my costume and more or less sit I sat down listened to
• 544:00 - 544:30 Mrs merryweather's drone and the bass drums boom and was soon fast asleep they said later that Mrs Merryweather was putting her all into the grand finale that she had cred po orc with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on Q she waited a few seconds then called po orc when nothing materialized she yelled pork I must have heard her in my sleep or the band playing Dixie woke me but it was when Mrs Merryweather triumphantly
• 544:30 - 545:00 mounted the stage with the state flag that I chose to make my entrance chose is incorrect I thought I would better catch up with the rest of them they told me later that judge Taylor went out behind the auditorium and stood there slapping his knees so hard Mrs Taylor brought him a glass of water and one of his pills Mrs Merryweather seemed to have a hit everybody was cheering so but she caught me backstage and told me I had
• 545:00 - 545:30 ruined her pageant she made me feel awful but when Jem came to fetch me he was sympathetic he said he could not see my costume much from where he was sitting how he could tell I was feeling bad under my costume I do not know but he said I did all right I just came in a little late that was all gem was becoming almost as good as attacus at making you feel right when things went wrong almost not even gem could make me go through that crowd and he consented
• 545:30 - 546:00 to wait backstage with me until the audience left you want to take it off scout he asked no I will just keep it on I said I could hide my mortification under it you all want to ride home question mark someone asked no sir thank you I heard Jem say it is just a little walk be careful of hints the voice said better still tell the hints to be careful of scout there aren't many folks left now Jem told me let us go we went through
• 546:00 - 546:30 the auditorium to the hallway then down the steps it was still black dark the remaining cars were parked on the other side of the building and their headlights were little help if some of them were going in our direction we could see better said Jem here Scout let me hold on to your Hawk you might lose your balance I I can see all right yeah but you might lose your balance I felt a slight pressure on my head and assumed that Jem had grabbed
• 546:30 - 547:00 that end of the ham you got me uh-huh we began crossing the black schoolyard straining to see our feet Jem I said I forgot my shoes they are back behind the stage well let us go get them but as we turned around the auditorium lights went off you can get them tomorrow he said but tomorrow Sunday I Pro protested as gem turned me Homeward you can get the janitor to let you in Scout nothing gem
• 547:00 - 547:30 hadn't started that in a long time I wondered what he was thinking he would tell me when he wanted to probably when we got home I felt his fingers press the top of my costume too hard it seemed I shook my head Jem you do not have to hush a minute Scout he said pinching me we walked along silently minute is up I said what are you thinking about I turned to look at him but his outline was barely visible thought I heard
• 547:30 - 548:00 something he said stop a minute we stopped hear anything he asked no we had not gone Five Paces before he made me stop again Jem are you trying to scare me you know I am too old be quiet he said and I knew he was not joking the night was still I could hear his breath coming easily beside me a cave occasionally there was a sudden Breeze that hit my bare legs but it was all that remained of a promised windy night
• 548:00 - 548:30 this was the Stillness before a thunderstorm we listened heard an old dog just then I said it is not that gem answered I hear it when we are walking along but when we stop I do not hear it you hear my costume rustling a it is just Halloween got you I said it more to convince myself than gem for sure enough as we began walking I heard what he was talking about it was not my costume it is just old ceile said Jem presently he
• 548:30 - 549:00 won't get us again let us do not let him think we are hurrying we slowed to a crawl I asked Jem how CLE could follow us in this dark looked to me like he would bump into us from behind I can see you Scout Jem said how I can't see you your fat streaks are showing Mrs krenshaw painted them with some of that shiny stuff so they would show up under the foot lights I can see you pretty well and I expect CLE can see you well
• 549:00 - 549:30 enough to keep his distance I would show cile that we knew he was behind us and we were ready for him cile Jacobs is a big wet Heen we stopped there was no acknowledgement save Heen bouncing off the distant Schoolhouse wall I will get him said Jem hey hey hey hey answered the schoolhouse wall it was was unlike cile to hold out for so long once he pulled a joke he would repeat it time and again we should have been leapt
• 549:30 - 550:00 at already gem signaled for me to stop again he said softly Scout can you take that thing off I think so but I do not have anything on under it much I have got your dress here I can't get it on in the dark okay he said never mind G are you afraid no think we are almost to the tree now few yards from from that and we will be to the road we can see the street light then Jem was talking in an unhurried flat toneless voice I wondered
• 550:00 - 550:30 how long he would try to keep the Cecil myth going you reckon we ought to sing Jem no be real quiet again Scout we had not increased our Pace Jim knew as well as I that it was difficult to walk fast without stumping a toe tripping on stones and other inconveniences and I was barefooted maybe it was the wind rustling the trees but there wasn't any wind and there weren't any trees except the Big Oak our company shuffled and
• 550:30 - 551:00 dragged his feet as if wearing heavy shoes whoever it was wore thick cotton pants what I thought were trees rustling was the soft swish of cotton on Cotton weak weak with every step I felt the sand go cold under my feet and I knew we were near the Big Oak gem pressed my head we stopped and listened Shuffle foot had had not stopped with us this time his trousers swished softly and steadily then they stopped he was
• 551:00 - 551:30 running running toward us with no child steps run Scout run run exclamation mark gem screamed I took one giant step and found myself reeling my arms were useless in the dark I could not keep my balance Jem Jem help me Jem something crushed the chicken wire around me metal ripped on metal and I fell to the ground and rolled as far as I could floundering to escape my wire Prison from somewhere nearby came scuffling kicking sounds
• 551:30 - 552:00 sounds of shoes and flesh scraping dirt and Roots someone rolled against me and I felt gem he was up like lightning and pulling me with him but though my head and shoulders were free I was so entangled we did not get very far we were nearly to the road when I felt Jem's hand Leave Me felt him jerk backwards to the ground more scuffling and there came a dull crunching sound and Gem screamed I ran in the direction of Gem's scream and sank into a flabby
• 552:00 - 552:30 male's stomach its owner said U and tried to catch my arms but they were tightly pinioned his stomach was soft but his arms were like steel he slowly squeezed the breath out of me I could not move suddenly he was jerked backwards and flung on the ground almost carrying me with him I thought gem is up one's mind works very slowly at times stunned I stood there dumbly the scuffling noises were dying someone
• 552:30 - 553:00 wheezed and the night was still again still but for a man Breathing heavily Breathing heavily and staggering I thought he went to the tree and leaned against it he coughed violently a sobbing bone-- shaking cough Jem there was no answer but the man's heavy breathing Jem gem didn't answer the man began moving around as if searching for something I heard him groan and pull something heavy along the ground it was
• 553:00 - 553:30 slowly coming to me that there were now four people under the tree attacus the man was walking heavily and unsteadily toward the road I went to where I thought he had been and felt frantically along the ground reaching out with my toes presently I touched someone gem my toes touched trousers a belt buckle buttons something I could not identify a collar and a face a prickly stubble on the face told me it was not gems I
• 553:30 - 554:00 smelled stale whiskey I made my way along in what I thought was the direction of the road I was not sure because I had been turned around so many times but I found it and looked down to the street light a man was passing under it the man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him he was going around the corner he was carrying gem Jem's arm was dangling crazily in front of him by the
• 554:00 - 554:30 time I reached the corner the man was crossing our front yard light from our front door framed attacus for an instant he ran down the steps and together he and the man took Jem inside I was at the front door when they were going down the hall Aunt Alexandra was running to meet me call Dr Reynolds atticus's voice came sharply from jemk room where is Scout here she is Aunt Alexandra called pulling me along with her to the
• 554:30 - 555:00 telephone she tugged at me anxiously I'm all right auntie I said you better call she pulled the receiver from the hook and said UL get Dr Reynolds quick Agnes is your father home oh God where is he please tell him to come over here as soon as he comes in please it is urgent there was no need for Anne Alexandra to identify herself people in makome knew each other's voices attakus came out of Jem's room the moment an Alexandra broke
• 555:00 - 555:30 the connection attakus took the receiver from her he rattled the hook then said UL get me the sheriff please heck attakus Finch someone has been after my children gems hurt between here and the schoolhouse I can't leave my boy run out there for me please and see if he is still around doubt if you will find him now but I would like to see him if you do got to go now thanks heck attakus is
• 555:30 - 556:00 Gem dead no Scout look after her sister he called as he went down the hall Aunt Alexandra's fingers trembled as she Unwound the crushed Fabric and wire from around me are you all right darling she asked over and over as she worked me free it was a relief to be out my arms were beginning to tingle and they were red with small hexagonal marks I rubbed them and they felt better Auntie is Gem dead no no darling he is unconscious we
• 556:00 - 556:30 won't know how badly he is hurt until Dr Reynolds gets here John Lise what happened I do not know she left it at that she brought me something to put on and had I thought about it then I would have never let her forget it in her distraction Auntie brought me my overalls put these on darling she said handing me the garments she most despised she rushed back to Gem's room then came to me in the hall she patted
• 556:30 - 557:00 me vaguely and went back to Jem's room a car stopped in front of the house I knew Dr reynolds's step almost as well as my father's he had brought jeem and me into the world had led us through every childhood disease known to man including the time jeem fell out of the Treehouse and he had never lost our friendship Dr Reynolds said if we had been boil prone things would have been different but we doubted it he came in the door and said
• 557:00 - 557:30 good Lord he walked toward me said you are still standing and changed his course he knew every room in the house he also knew that if I was in bad shape so was Jem after 10 Forevers Dr Reynolds returned is Jem dead I asked far from it he said squatting down to me he's got a bump on the head just like yours and a broken arm Scout look that way no do not turn your head roll your eyes now Look Over Yonder he's got a bad break so far
• 557:30 - 558:00 as I can tell now it is in the elbow like somebody tried to ring his arm off now look at me then he is not dead no Dr Reynolds got to his feet we can't do much tonight he said except try to make him as comfortable as we can we will have to x-ray his arm it looks like he will be wearing his arm way out by his side for a while don't worry though he will be as good as new boy's age bounce
• 558:00 - 558:30 while he was talking Dr Reynolds had been looking keenly at me lightly fingering the bump that was coming on my forehead you do not feel broke anywhere do you Dr reynolds's small joke made me smile then you do not think he is dead then he put on his hat now I may be wrong of course but I think he is very alive shows all the symptoms of it go have a look at him and when I come back we will get together and decide do reynolds's
• 558:30 - 559:00 step was young and brisk Mr hect Tates was not his heavy boots punished the porch and he opened the door awkwardly but he said the same thing Dr Reynolds said when he came in you all right Scout he added yes sir I'm going in to see Gem attakus and them are in there I will go with you said Mr Aunt Alexandra had shaded Gem's reading light with a towel and his room was dim gem was lying on his back there was an
• 559:00 - 559:30 ugly Mark along one side of his face his left arm lay out from his body his elbow was bent slightly but in the wrong direction gem was frowning Jem attakus spoke he cannot hear you Scout he is out like a light he was coming around but Dr Reynolds put him out again yes sir I retreated Gem's room was large and square Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair by the fireplace the man who brought Jem in was
• 559:30 - 560:00 standing in a corner leaning against the wall he was some Countryman I did not know he had probably been at the pageant and was in the vicinity when it happened he must have heard our screams and come running attacus was standing by Jem's bed Mr Hecate stood in the doorway his hat was in his hand hand and a flashlight bulged from his pants pocket he was in his working clothes come in heck said attakus did you find anything
• 560:00 - 560:30 I can't conceive of anyone low down enough to do a thing like this but I hope you found him Mr Tate sniffed he glanced sharply at the man in the corner nodded to him then looked around the room at gem at an Alexandra then at attakus sit down Mr Finch he said pleasantly attakus said let us all sit down have that chair heck I will get another one from the living room Mr Tate sat in jemk desk chair he waited until attakus
• 560:30 - 561:00 returned and settled himself I wondered why attakus had not brought a chair for the man in the corner but attakus knew the ways of country people far better than I some of his rural clients would park their long-eared steeds under the China ber trees in the backyard an attacus would often keep appointments on the back steps this one was probably more comfortable where he was Mr Finch said Mr Tate tell you what I found I found a little girl's
• 561:00 - 561:30 dress it is out there in my car that your dress Scout yes sir if it is a pink one with smoking I said Mr Tate was behaving as if he were on the witness stand he liked to tell things his own way untrammeled by state or defense and sometimes it took him a while I found some funny looking pieces of Muddy colored cloth dashr that is my costume Mr Tate Mr Tate ran his hands down his thighs he rubbed his left arm and
• 561:30 - 562:00 investigated Gem's mantlepiece then he seemed to be interested in the fireplace his fingers sought his long nose what is it heck said attakus Mr Tate found his neck and rubbed it Bob ues lying on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs he is dead Mr Finch chapter 29 Aunt Alexandra got up and
• 562:00 - 562:30 reached for the mantle piece Mr Tate Rose but she declined assistance for once in his life atticus's instinctive courtesy failed him he sat where he was somehow I could think of nothing but Mr Bob uell saying he would get attakus if it took him the rest of his life Mr Ule almost got him and it was the last thing he did are you sure attakus said bleakly he is dead all right said Mr Tate he is good and dead he won't hurt these
• 562:30 - 563:00 children again I didn't mean that attakus seemed to be talking in his sleep his age was beginning to show his one sign of inner turmoil the strong line of his jaw melted a little one became aware of Telltale creases forming under his ears one noticed not his jet black hair but the gray patches growing at his temples hadn't we better go to the living room Aunt Alexandra said at last if you do not mind said Mr Tate I would rather us stay in here if it will
• 563:00 - 563:30 not hurt jeem any I want to have a look at his injuries while Scout tells us about it is it all right if I leave she asked I am just one person too many in here I will be in my room if you want me attakus on Alexandra went to the door but she stopped and turned adus I had a feeling about this tonight I this is my fault she began I should have Mr Tate held up his hand you go ahead Miss Alexandra I know it's been
• 563:30 - 564:00 a shock to you and do not you fret yourself about anything why if we followed our feelings all the time we would be like cats chasing their tails Miss Scout see if you can tell us what happened while it is still fresh in your mind you think you can did you see him following you I went to attakus and felt his arm arms go around me I buried my head in his lap we started home I said Jem I have forgot my shoes soon as
• 564:00 - 564:30 we started back for them the Lights Went Out gem said I could get them tomorrow Scout raise up so Mr Tate can hear you attakus said I crawled into his lap then Jem said hush a minute I thought he was thinking he always wants you to hush so he can think then he said he heard something we thought it was cile Cecil Cil Jacobs he scared us once tonight and we thought it was him again he had on a sheet they gave a quarter
• 564:30 - 565:00 for the best costume I do not know who won it where were you when you thought it was sisle just a little piece from the schoolhouse I yelled something at him you yelled what question mark cesil Jacobs is a big fat hen I think we didn't hear nothing then gem yelled hello or something loud enough to Wake the Dead just a minute Scout said Mr Tate Mr Finch did you hear them attakus said he did not he had the radio on Aunt
• 565:00 - 565:30 Alexandra had hers going in her bedroom he remembered because she told him to turn his down a bit so she could hear hers attakus smiled I always play a radio too loud I wonder if the neighbors heard anything said Mr Tate I doubt it heck most of them listen to their radios or go to bed with the chickens myty Atkinson may have been up but I doubt it go ahead Scout Mr Tate said well after gem yelled we walked on Mr Tate I was
• 565:30 - 566:00 shut up in my costume but I could hear it myself then footsteps I mean they walked when we walked and stopped when we stopped Jem said he could see me because Mrs khaw put some kind of shiny paint on my costume I was a ham how is that asked Mr Tate startled atus described my role to Mr Tate plus the construction of my garment you should have seen her when she came in he said it was crushed to a pulp Mr Tate rubbed
• 566:00 - 566:30 his chin I wondered why he had those marks on him his sleeves were perforated with little holes there were one or two little puncture marks on his arms to match the holes let me see that thing if you will sir attacus fetched the remains of my costume Mr Tate turned it over and bent it around to get an idea of its former shape this thing probably saved her life he said look he pointed with a
• 566:30 - 567:00 long forefinger a shiny clean line stood out on the dull wire Bob you will meant business Mr Tate mutter he was out of his mind said attakus do not like to contradict you Mr Finch was not crazy mean as hell low down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children he would never have met you face to face attakus shook his head I can't conceive of a man who would Mr Finch there is just some kind of men you
• 567:00 - 567:30 have to shoot before you can say Heidi to them even then they are not worth the bullet it takes to shoot them e will has one of them attakus said I thought he got it all out of him the day he threatened me even if he had not I thought he would come after me he had guts enough to pester a poor colored woman he had guts enough to pester judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty so do you think he would have met you to your face
• 567:30 - 568:00 in daylight Mr Tate sigh we would better get on Scout you heard him behind you yes sir when we got under the tree how did you know you were under the tree you could not see thunder out there I was barefooted and Jem says the ground is always cooler under a tree we will have to make him a deputy go ahead head then all of a sudden something grabbed me and mashed my costume think I ducked on the ground heard a tussling under the tree
• 568:00 - 568:30 sort of they were baming against the trunk sounded like Jem found me and started pulling me toward the road some Mr Ule yanked him down I reckon they tussled some more and then there was this funny noise Dash gem hollered Ellipsis I stopped that was Gem's arm anyway gem hollered and I did not hear him anymore and the next thing Mr U was trying to squeeze me to death I reckon then somebody yanked Mr U Down gem must
• 568:30 - 569:00 have got up I guess that is all I know and then Mr Tate was looking at me sharply somebody was staggering around and panting and coughing fit to die I thought it was gem at first but it did not sound like him so I went looking for gem on the ground I thought attakus had come to help us and had gotten worn out who was it why there he is Mr Tate he can tell you his name as I said it I
• 569:00 - 569:30 half pointed to the man in the corner but brought my arm down quickly lest attacus reprimand me for pointing it was impolite to point he was still leaning against the wall he had been leaning against the wall when I came into the room his arms folded across his chest as I pointed he brought his arms down and pressed the palms of his hands against the wall they were white hands sickly white hands that had never seen the Sun so white they stood out garishly
• 569:30 - 570:00 against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem's room I looked from his hands to his sand stained khaki pants my eyes traveled up his thin frame to his torn denim shirt his face was as white as his hands but for a shadow on his jutting chin his cheeks were thin to hollow his mouth was wide there were shallow almost delicate indentations at his temples and his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind his hair was dead and thin almost feathery
• 570:00 - 570:30 on top of his head when I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall and he hooked his thumbs in his belt a strange small spasm shook him as if he heard fingernails scrape slate but as I gazed at him in Wonder the tension slowly drained from his face his lips parted into a timid smile and our neighbor image blurred with my sudden tears hey buo I
• 570:30 - 571:00 said Chapter 30 Mr Arthur honey said attakus gently correcting me Jean Louise this is Mr Arthur Radley I believe he already knows you if attakus could blandly introduce me to BU Radley at a time like this well that was attacus Buu saw me run instinctively to the bed where jeem was sleeping sing for the same shy smile crept across his face hot with embarrassment I tried to cover up by covering gem up ah do not touch him
• 571:00 - 571:30 attakus said Mr hect Tate sat looking intently at Buu through his horn rimmed glasses he was about to speak when doctor Reynolds came down the hall everybody out he said as he came in the door evening Arthur did not notice you the first time I was here doctor reynolds's voice was as breezy as his step as though he had said it every evening of his life an announcement that astounded me even more than being in the
• 571:30 - 572:00 same room with bu Radley of course even bu Radley got sick sometimes I thought but on the other hand I wasn't sure doctor Reynolds was carrying a big package wrapped in newspaper he put it down on Gem's desk and took off his coat you're quite satisfied he is alive now tell you how I knew when I tried to examine him he kicked me had to put him out good and proper to touch him so scat he said to
• 572:00 - 572:30 me or said attakus glancing at Buu heck let's go out on the front porch there are plenty of chairs out there and it is still warm enough I wondered why attakus was inviting us to the front porch instead of the living room then I understood the living room lights were awfully strong we filed out first Mr Mr Tate attakus was waiting at the door for him to go ahead of him then he changed his mind and followed Mr Tate people
• 572:30 - 573:00 have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions I was no exception come along Mr Arthur I heard myself saying you do not know the house really well I will just take you to the porch sir he looked down at me and nodded I led him through the hall and pass the living room won't you have a seat Mr Arthur this rocking chair is nice and comfortable my small fantasy about him was alive again he would be sitting on
• 573:00 - 573:30 the porch right pretty spell we are having is not it Mr Arthur yes a right pretty spell feeling slightly unreal I led him to the chair farthest from attakus and Mr Tate it was in deep Shadow Buu would feel more comfortable in the dark attakus was sitting in the swing and Mr Tate was in a chair next to him the light from the living room windows was strong on them I sat beside Buu well heck attakus was saying I guess the
• 573:30 - 574:00 thing to do good Lord I am losing my memory attakus pushed up his glasses and pressed his fingers to his eyes Jem's not quite 13 no he is already 13 Dash I cannot remember anyway it will come before County Court what will Mr Finch Mr Tate uncrossed his legs and leaned forward of course of course it was clear-cut self-defense but I will have to go to the office and Hunt up Mr Finch do you think gem killed Bob uul do you
• 574:00 - 574:30 think that you heard what Scout said there is no doubt about it she said Jem got up and yanked him off her he probably got hold of ul's knife somehow in the dark we will find out tomorrow Mr Finch Hold on said Mr Tate gem never stabbed Bob U attakus was silent for a moment he looked at Mr Tate as if he appreciated what he said but attakus shook his head heck it is mighty kind of you and I know you are doing it from
• 574:30 - 575:00 that good heart of yours but do not start anything like that Mr Tate got up and went to the edge of the porch he spat into the Shrubbery then thrust his hands into his hip pockets and faced attakus like what question mark he said period I am sorry if I spoke sharply heck attakus said simply but no no body is hushing this up I do not live that way nobody is going to hush anything up Mr Finch Mr Tate's voice was quiet but
• 575:00 - 575:30 his boots were planted so solidly on the porch floorboards it seemed that they grew there a curious contest the nature of which eluded me was developing between my father and the sheriff it was atticus's turn to get up and go to the edge of the porch he said Herm and spat dryly into the yard he put his hands in his pocket and faced Mr Tate heck you haven't said it but I know what you are thinking thank you for it Jean Lise he turned to
• 575:30 - 576:00 me you said gem yanked Mr ew will off you yes sir that's what I thought I see there heck thank you from the bottom of my heart but I do not want my boy starting out with something like this over his head best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open let the C come and bring sandwiches I do not want him growing up with a whisper about him I do not want anybody saying gem Finch
• 576:00 - 576:30 his daddy paid a mint to get him out of that sooner we get this over with the better Mr Finch Mr Tate said stolidly bobul fell on his knife he killed himself attakus walked to the corner of the porch he looked at the wisteria vine in his own way I thought each was as stubborn as the other I wondered who would give in first atticus's stubbornness was quiet and rarely evident but in some ways he was as set as the cunninghams Mr Tates was unschooled and
• 576:30 - 577:00 blunt but it was equal to my father's HEC atticus's back was turned if this thing is hushed up it will be a simple denial to Gem of the way I have tried to raise him sometimes I think I am a total failure as a parent but I am all they have got before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me and I have tried to live so I can look squarely back at him if I connived at something like this frankly I could not meet his eye and the
• 577:00 - 577:30 day I cannot do that I will know I have lost him I do not want to lose him in Scout because they are all I have got Mr Finch Mr Tate was still planted to the floorboards Bob Ule fell on his knife I can prove it attacus wheeled around his hands dug into his pockets heck can't you even try to see it my way you have got children of your own but I am older than you when mine are grown I will be an old man if I'm still around but right
• 577:30 - 578:00 now I am if they do not trust me they will not trust anybody Gem and Scout know what happened if they hear of me saying downtown something different happened Dash heck comma I won't have them anymore period I cannot live one way in town and another way in my home Mr Tate loed on his heels and said patiently he had flung gem down he stumbled over a root under that tree and look I can show you Mr Tate reached in
• 578:00 - 578:30 his side pocket and withdrew a long switchblade knife as he did so doctor Reynolds came to the door the sun deceased is under that tree doctor just inside the schoolyard got a flashlight better have this one I can ease around and turn my car lights on said doctor Reynolds but he took Mr Tate's flashlight Jem's all right he won't wake up tonight I hope so do not worry that the knife that killed him heck no sir
• 578:30 - 579:00 still in him looked like a kitchen knife from the handle Ken ought to be there with the hearse by now doctor good night Mr Tate flicked open the knife it was like this he said he held the knife and pretended to stumble as he leaned forward his left arm went down in front of him see there stabbed himself through that Soft Stuff between his ribs his whole weight drove it in Mr Tate closed the knife and jammed it back in his pocket Scout is 8
• 579:00 - 579:30 years old he said she was too scared to know exactly what went on you would be surprised attakus said grimly I am not saying she made it up I am saying she was too scared to know exactly what happened it was mighty dark out there black as ink I would take somebody Mighty used to the dark to make a competent witness I won't have it attakus said softly godamn it I am not thinking of gem Mr Tate's boot hit the floorboard so
• 579:30 - 580:00 hard the lights in Miss M's bedroom went on Miss Stephanie Crawford's lights went on attakus and Mr Tate looked across the street then at each other they waited when Mr Tate spoke again his voice was barely audible Mr Finch I hate to fight you when you like this you have been under a strain tonight no man should ever have to go through why you aren't in the bed from it I don't know but I do know that for
• 580:00 - 580:30 once you haven't been able to put two and two together and we've got to settle this tonight because tomorrow will be too late Bob ues got a kitchen knife in his craw Mr Tate added that attakus was not going to stand there and maintain that any boy Gem's size with a busted arm had fight enough left in him to tackle and kill a grown man in the pitch dark heck said attakus abruptly that was a switchblade you were waving where did you get it took it off
• 580:30 - 581:00 a drunk man Mr Tate answered cooly I was trying to remember Mr Ule was on me then he went down gem must have gotten up at least I thought heck I said I took it off a drunk man downtown tonight you will probably found that kitchen knife in the dump somewhere honed it down and bited his time just bited his time attakus made his way to the swing and sat down his hands dangled limply
• 581:00 - 581:30 between his knees he was looking at the floor he had moved with the same slowness that night in front of the jail when I thought it took him forever to fold his newspaper and toss it in his chair Mr Tate clumped softly around the porch it ain't your decision Mr Finch it's it's all mine it is my decision and my responsibility for once if you do not see it my way there is not much you can do about it if you want to try I will
• 581:30 - 582:00 call you a liar to your face your boy never stabbed Bob you will he said slowly didn't come near a mile of it and now you know it all he wanted to do was get him and his sister safely home Mr Tate stopped pacing he stopped in front of attakus and his back was to us I am not a very good man sir but I am Sheriff of makome County lived in this town all my life and I am going on 43 years old know everything that has happened here
• 582:00 - 582:30 since before I was born there is a black boy dead for no reason and the man responsible for it is dead Let the dead bury the dead this time Mr Finch Let the dead bury the dead Mr Tate went to the swing and picked up his hat it was lying beside attakus Mr Tate pushed back his hair and put his hat on I never heard tell that it is against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed
• 582:30 - 583:00 which is exactly what he did but maybe you will say it is my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up know what would happen then all the ladies in makome including my wife would be knocking on his door bringing angel food cakes to my way of thinking Mr Finch taking the one man man who has done you in this town a great service and dragging him with his shy ways into the Limelight to me that is a sin it is a sin and I am not about to have it on
• 583:00 - 583:30 my head if it was any other man it would be different but not this man Mr Finch Mr Tate was trying to dig a hole in the floor with the toe of his boot he pulled his nose then he massaged his left arm I may not be much Mr Finch but I am still Sheriff of makome County and Bob Ule fell on his knife good night Sir Mr Tate stamped off the porch and stroe across the front yard his car door slammed and
• 583:30 - 584:00 he drove away attakus sat looking at the floor for a long time finally he raised his head Scout he said Mr Ule fell on his knife can you possibly understand attakus looked like he needed cheering up I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might yes sir I understand I reassured him Mr Tate was right attakus disengaged himself and looked at me what do you mean well it would be sort of like shooting a mocking
• 584:00 - 584:30 bird would it not attakus put his face in my hair and rubbed it when he got up and walked across the porch into the Shadows his youthful step had returned before he went inside the house he stopped in front of BU Radley thank you for my children Arthur he said chapter 31 when bu Radley shuffled to his feet light from the living room windows glistened on his forehead every
• 584:30 - 585:00 move he made was uncertain as if he were not sure his hands and feet could make proper contact with the things he touched he coughed his Dreadful railing cough and was so shaken he had to sit down again his hand searched for his hip pocket and he pulled out a handkerchief he coughed into it then he wiped his forehead having been so accustomed to his absence I found it incredible that he had been sitting beside me all this time present he had not made a sound once
• 585:00 - 585:30 more he got to his feet he turned to me and nodded toward the front door you would like to say good night to Jem would you not Mr Arthur come right in I led him down the hall Aunt Alexandra was sitting by jemk bed come in Arthur she said he is still asleep doctor Reynolds gave him a heavy sedative Jean Louise is your father in the living room yes ma'am I think so I will just go speak to him a
• 585:30 - 586:00 minute doctor Reynolds left some her voice trailed away Buu had drifted to a corner of the room where he stood with his chin up peering from a distance at gem I took him by the hand a hand surprisingly warm for its whiteness I tugged him a little and he allowed me to lead him to jemk bed doctor Reynolds had made a tent-like Arrangement over jemk arm to keep the cover off I guess and Buu leaned forward and looked over it an
• 586:00 - 586:30 expression of timid curiosity was on his face as though he had never seen a boy before his mouth was slightly open and he looked at gem from head to foot Buu's hand came up but he Let It Drop to his side you can pet him Mr Arthur he is asleep you couldn't if he was awake though he wouldn't let you I found myself explaining go ahead Buu's hand hovered over jemk head go on sir he is asleep his hand came down lightly on Jem's hair
• 586:30 - 587:00 I was beginning to learn his body English his hand tightened on mine and he indicated that he wanted to leave I led him to the front porch where his uneasy steps halted he was still holding my hand and he gave no sign of letting me go will you take me home he almost whispered it in the voice of a child Afra of the dark I put my foot on the top step and stopped I would lead him through our house but I would never lead him home Mr Arthur bend your arm down
• 587:00 - 587:30 here like that that is right sir I slipped my hand into the crook of his arm he had to stoop a little to accommodate me but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk as any gentleman would do we came to the street light on the corner and I wondered how many times Dill had stood there hugging the fat pole watching waiting hoping I wondered how many times Jem and I had made this
• 587:30 - 588:00 journey but I entered the Radley front gate for the second time in my life Buu and I walked up the steps to the porch his fingers found the front door knob he gently released my hand opened the door went inside and shut the door behind him I never saw him again neighbors bring food with death and Flow hour with sickness and little things in between Buu was our neighbor he gave us two soap dolls a broken watch and chain a pair of good luck pennies and our
• 588:00 - 588:30 lives but neighbors give in return we never put back into the tree what we took out of it we had given him nothing and it made me sad I turned to go home street lights winked down the street all the way to town I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle there were Miss Mes Miss Stephanie's there was our house I could see the porch swing Miss Rachel's house was beyond us plainly visible I could even see Mrs dubose's I
• 588:30 - 589:00 looked behind me to the left of the brown door was a long shuttered window I walked to it stood in front of it and turned around in daylight I thought you could see to the post office Corner daylight in my mind the night faded it was daytime and the neighborhood was busy Miss Stephanie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to miss Rachel Miss motty bent over her aelas it was summertime and two children scampered
• 589:00 - 589:30 down the sidewalk toward a man approaching in the distance the man waved and the children raced each other to him it was still summertime and the children came closer a boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him a man stood waiting with his hands on his hips summertime and his children played in the front yard with their friend enacting a strange little drama of their own invention it was fall and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs
• 589:30 - 590:00 dubose's the boy helped his sister to her feet and they made their way home fall and his children trotted to and fro around the corner the day woes and triumphs on their faces they stopped at an oak tree delighted puzzled apprehensive winter and his children shivered at the front gate silhouetted against a blazing House Winter and a man walked into the street dropped his glasses and shot a dog summer and he watched his children's
• 590:00 - 590:30 heartbreak Autumn again and Buu's children needed him attakus was right one time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them just standing on the Radley porch was enough the street lights were fuzzy from the fine rain that was falling as I made made my way home I felt very old but when I looked at the tip of my nose I could see fine Misty beads but looking crosseyed made me dizzy so I quit as I made my way home
• 590:30 - 591:00 I thought what a thing to tell Jem tomorrow he would be so mad he missed it he would not speak to me for days as I made my way home I thought Gem and I would get grown but there was not much else left for us to learn except possibly Algebra I ran up the steps and into the house Aunt Alexandra had gone to bed and atticus's room was dark I would see if Jem might be Reviving attacus was in Jem's room sitting by his bed he was reading a book is Jem awake
• 591:00 - 591:30 yet sleeping peacefully he won't be awake until morning oh are you sitting up with him just for an hour or so go to bed Scout you have had a long day well I think I will stay with you for a while suit yourself said attakus it must have been after midnight and I was puzzled by his amiable acquiescence he was shrewder than I however the moment I sat down I began to feel sleepy what are you reading attakus turned the book over
• 591:30 - 592:00 something of gems called the gry ghost I was suddenly awake why did you get that one honey I do not know just picked it up one of the few things I haven't read he said pointedly read it out loud please attakus it is really scary no he said you have had enough scaring for a while this is too Dash atus I wasn't scared he raised his eyebrows and I protested least ways not till I started telling Mr Tate about it gem wasn't
• 592:00 - 592:30 scared asked him and he said he was not besides nothing is really scary except in books attakus opened his mouth to say something but shut it again he took his thumb from the middle of the book and turned back to the first page I moved over and leaned my head against knee H Prime arm he said the grey ghost by secretary Hawkins chapter 1 I willed myself to stay awake but the rain was so soft and the room was so
• 592:30 - 593:00 warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept seconds later it seemed his shoe was gently nudging my ribs he lifted me to my feet and walked me to my room heard every word you said I muttered wasn't sleep at all it's about a ship and three-fingered Fred and stoners boy he unhooked my overalls leaned me against him and pulled them off he held me up with one hand and reached for my pajamas with the other yeah and they all thought it was
• 593:00 - 593:30 stoner's Boy messing up their Clubhouse and throwing ink all over it and he guided me to the bed and sat me down he lifted my legs and put me under the cover and they chased him and never could catch him because they didn't know what he looked like and attacus when they finally saw him why he hadn't done any of those things attacus he was really nice his hands were under my chin pulling up the cover tucking it around me most people are Scout when you
• 593:30 - 594:00 finally see them he turned out the light and went into Gem's room he would be there all night and he would be there when gem woke up in the morning the end thank you friends for listening to this story please subscribe and write in the comments what you would like to listen to in the future take care of yourself