Journal #4

            We had quite a scare Dill, Jem and I, when we snuck onto the Radley property. We snuck around the outside of the house, peering in windows as we went. We nearly jumped strait out of our skins when we saw a shadow of a man with a hat from the other side of the shutters. We ran like our tails were set ablaze and we heard the sound of gunfire not far behind us. We slid under the fence but Jem’s pants got stuck and he was forced to leave them behind. Jem didn’t really care at that time seeing as he nearly fainted at the sight of that shadow. We booked it all the way home.

 Jem had to lie to Atticus about why his pants were gone, saying that he’d lost them in a game of strip poker. The neighbours all believed that the gunshots were those of Nathan Radley shooting at a Negro on his lawn but little did they know he was shooting at us. Ashamed that his pants were gone and to get back into Atticus’s good books, Jem returned to get his pants that night, only to find that they had been mended and lay folded on the fence. Jem was so terrified he was pale for the next day and hardly spoke. We figured out later that it must have been Boo who mended the pants and the thought of that sent chills down my spine. Boo was the most mysterious entity in Maycomb and this was proof that he existed. My curiosity about Boo Radley only heightened after this revelation.