A few more details, enabling the listener to repeat his version in turn,
then nothing to talk about until The Maycomb Tribune appeared the following Thursday.
There was a brief obituary in the Colored News, but there was also an editorial.
Mr. B. B. Underwood was at his most bitter, and he couldn’t have cared less who canceled advertising and subscriptions.
(But Maycomb didn’t play that way: Mr. Underwood could holler till he sweated and write whatever he wanted to,
he’d still get his advertising and subscriptions. If he wanted to make a fool of himself in his paper that was his business.)
Mr. Underwood didn’t talk about miscarriages of justice, he was writing so children could understand.
Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping.
He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children,
and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser.
How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood’s editorial.
Senseless killing—Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death;
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