TKAM ch. 1-10

There went with the house the usual legend about the Yankees: one Finch female, recently engaged, donned her complete trousseau to save it from raiders in the neighborhood; she became stuck in the door to the Daughters' Staircase but was doused wit

Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap.

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.

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.

Boo bit it off one night when he couldn't find any cats and squirrels to eat.); she sat in the living room and cried most of the time, while Boo slowly whittled away all the furniture in the house.

He trudged along, dragging the pole behind him on the sidewalk.

The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors.

But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a g-irl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.

It was obstreperous, disorderly and abusive -"
"You gonna give me a chance to tell you?

"You all hush," said Jem. He scuttled beneath the house and came out with a yellow bamboo pole.

Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.

Microscopic grains oozed out.

But I must say Providence was kind enough to burn down that old mausoleum of mine, I'm too old to keep it up-maybe you're right, Jean Louise, this is a settled neighborhood.

She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnia's grammar became erratic.

The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-itco

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Miss Caroline smiled, blew her nose, said, "Thank you, darlings," dispersed us, opened a book and mystified the first grade with a long n

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 Eddy, people still looked at the Radley

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

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 civilized I could be; after all, I ate at home every day with no major mishaps.