Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus’s brother, since they were children.
Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch’s Landing.
Miss Maudie was the daughter of a neighboring landowner, Dr. Frank Buford.
Dr. Buford’s profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.
Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for digging to his window boxes in Nashville and stayed rich.
We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him.
Miss Maudie would yell back, “Call a little louder, Jack Finch, and they’ll hear you at the post office,
I haven’t heard you yet!” Jem and I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady’s hand in marriage,
but then Uncle Jack was rather strange. He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie’s goat,
that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world
Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing,
and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.
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