“Yes,” said Atticus. “You were both convicted?” “Yes suh, I had to serve ‘cause I couldn’t pay the fine.
Other fellow paid his’n.” Dill leaned across me and asked Jem what Atticus was doing.
Jem said Atticus was showing the jury that Tom had nothing to hide. “Were you acquainted with Mayella Violet Ewell?” asked Atticus.
“Yes suh, I had to pass her place goin’ to and from the field every day.” “Whose field?” “I picks for Mr. Link Deas.”
“Were you picking cotton in November?” “No suh, I works in his yard fall an’ wintertime.
I works pretty steady for him all year round, he’s got a lot of pecan trees’n things.”
You say you had to pass the Ewell place to get to and from work. Is there any other way to go?” “No suh, none’s I know of.”
“Tom, did she ever speak to you?” “Why, yes suh, I’d tip m’hat when I’d go by,
and one day she asked me to come inside the fence and bust up a chiffarobe for her.”
“When did she ask you to chop up the—the chiffarobe?” “Mr. Finch, it was way last spring.
I remember it because it was choppin’ time and I had my hoe with me.
I said I didn’t have nothin’ but this hoe, but she said she had a hatchet. She give me the hatchet and I broke up the chiffarobe.
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