but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part.
We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb’s ways in one day,
and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.
“I’ll be dogged,” I said. “I didn’t know no better than not to read to her, and she held me responsible—”
“—listen Atticus, I don’t have to go to school!” I was bursting with a sudden thought. “Burris Ewell, remember?”
“He just goes to school the first day. The truant lady reckons she’s carried out the law when she gets his name on the roll—”
“You can’t do that, Scout,” Atticus said. “Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.
I don’t see why I have to when he doesn’t.” “Then listen.
Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations.
None of them had done an honest day’s work in his recollection.
He said that some Christmas, when he was getting rid of the tree, he would take me with him
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