My nagging got the better of Jem, as i knew it would, and to my relief we slowed down the game for a while.
I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch
I don't want any of that. Tell me.
Nothin', sir.
Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I've ever heard. among other things, he had been up in a mail plane seventeen times, he had been to Nova Scotia, he had seen a elephant, and his grandaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and he left him his sword.
I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain't sure now!
Jem attached a note to the end of the fishing pole, let the pole across the yard and pushed it toward the window he had selected. The pole lacked several inches of being long enough, and Jem leaned over as far as he could. I watched him making jabbing motions for so long, I abandoned my post and went to him.
"Jem", Atticus said, "what were you doing?"
we were just trying to give something to Boo Radley.
When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had done the oldest lawyer trick on record. He waited a respectful distance from the front steps, watched Atticus leave the house and walk toward town. When Atticus was out of earshot Jem yelled after him.