“I haven’t got one.” “Is he dead?” “No…” “Then if he’s not dead you’ve got one, haven’t you?”
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 treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard,
fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
In this matter we were lucky to have Dill. He played the character parts formerly thrust upon me—
the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift.
Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed 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 Boo Radley come out.
The Radley Place fascinated Dill. In spite of our 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.
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