Once we came home from Finch’s landing after Christmas, we wanted to start shooting birds right away. Then Atticus told us, “you can shoot all the blue jays you want, but it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Atiicus never says anything is a sin, so it was weird to hear. I really didn’t want to shoot a mockingbird so I just shot tin cans in the backyard instead. Me and Scout went shooting past the Radley place, when I saw something really weird in the distance. Tim Johnson was down yonder hobbling up the road. We realized we were in grave peril because of the effects of a mad dog.We ran back to the house and called for Cal. She came down and saw Tim Johnson and reported him as a mad dog to everyone on our street. She called Atticus and he came with the sheriff.
Then something really weird happened. The sheriff handed the gun to Atticus and said, you’re the only one that can hit him from here Ol’ One Shot. We went over to Ms. Maudie’s and she told us that Atticus used to be the deadest shot in all of Maycomb County. I really surprised me to hear this.
My 12th birthday came and I got some money that was burning a hole in my pocket. We had to walk by Mrs. Dubose’s house on the way to town and she was on the front porch. She called Atticus a nigger-lover and she yelled some more insults. Jem went to town and bought the steam engine I wanted and I bought Scout a baton. Then as we were going home I lost my temper and cut all those hedges in that mean old lady’s yard. Then I snapped Socut’s baton in half.
Later that night Atticus made me go up and apologize to the cantankerous old lady. I told her I would try and re-grow all the plants that I cut down. That evil old lady also made me read to her every day for a month. About a month after I was done reading Atticus came home and said that that evil old lady had died
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