The second change in Maycomb since last year was not one of national significance.
Until then, Halloween in Maycomb was a completely unorganized affair. Each child did what he wanted to do,
with assistance from other children if there was anything to be moved, such as placing a light buggy on top of the livery stable.
But parents thought things went too far last year, when the peace of Miss Tutti and Miss Frutti was shattered.
Misses Tutti and Frutti Barber were maiden ladies, sisters, who lived together in the only Maycomb residence boasting a cellar.
The Barber ladies were rumored to be Republicans, having migrated from Clanton, Alabama, in 1911.
Their ways were strange to us, and why they wanted a cellar nobody knew,
but they wanted one and they dug one, and they spent the rest of their lives chasing generations of children out of it.
Misses Tutti and Frutti (their names were Sarah and Frances), aside from their Yankee ways, were both deaf.
Miss Tutti denied it and lived in a world of silence, but Miss Frutti, not about to miss anything,
employed an ear trumpet so enormous that Jem declared it was a loudspeaker from one of those dog Victrolas.
With these facts in mind and Halloween at hand, some wicked children had waited until the Misses Barber were thoroughly asleep,
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