He goes to bed with the… chickens, a crate full of sick chickens, Fred says that’s what started it all. Fred says…”
Aunt Alexandra looked across the room at me and smiled. She looked at a tray of cookies on the table and nodded at them.
I carefully picked up the tray and watched myself walk to Mrs. Merriweather. With my best company manners, I asked her if she would have some.
After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.
Chapter 25
Don’t do that, Scout. Set him out on the back steps.
Jem, are you crazy?…” “I said set him out on the back steps.
Sighing, I scooped up the small creature, placed him on the bottom step and went back to my cot.
September had come, but not a trace of cool weather with it, and we were still sleeping on the back screen porch.
Lightning bugs were still about, the night crawlers and flying insects that beat against the screen
the summer long had not gone wherever they go when autumn comes.
A roly-poly had found his way inside the house; I reasoned that the tiny varmint had crawled up the steps and under the door.
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