When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning,
Jem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer’s trick on record.
He waited a respectful distance from the front steps, watched Atticus leave the house and walk toward town.
When Atticus was out of earshot Jem yelled after him: “I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!”
Chapter 6
“Yes,” said our father, when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by Miss Rachel’s fishpool with Dill, as this was his last night in Maycomb.
“Tell him so long for me, and we’ll see him next summer.” We leaped over the low wall that separated Miss Rachel’s yard from our driveway.
Jem whistled bob-white and Dill answered in the darkness. “Not a breath blowing,” said Jem. “Looka yonder.”
He pointed to the east. A gigantic moon was rising behind Miss Maudie’s pecan trees.
“That makes it seem hotter,” he said. “Cross in it tonight?” asked Dill, not looking up.
He was constructing a cigarette from newspaper and string. “No, just the lady. Don’t light that thing, Dill, you’ll stink up this whole end of town.”
There was a lady in the moon in Maycomb. She sat at a dresser combing her hair.
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