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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em
to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild
animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp,
maybe we need a police force of children.
He's about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw
squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There's a long, jagged scar
that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and
rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.
He can do plenty of things... He can make
somebody's will so airtight you can't break it. You count your
blessings and stop complaining, both of you. Thank your stars he has
the sense to act his age.
Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room
that they locked Boo up in. My aunt says it's bat-infested, and he
nearly died from the mildew. Come on. I bet they got chains and
instruments of torture down there.
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"I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said
Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I
can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and
laugh my head off." "You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem.
"Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna
be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring
and laugh at the folks."
Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with
sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He
gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our
lives.
I'm little but I'm old.
The one place where a man ought to get a square
deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people
have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As
you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of
your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -
whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is,
how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man
is trash.
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