Chapter 2
Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian.
We saw him off on the five o’clock bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school 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 Jem had given me, learning their games,
following Jem’s red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man’s buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.
I longed to join them. Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents,
but Atticus had said Jem 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, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him,
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