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Summary Chapter 6

Atticus allows Jem and Scout to go sit by Miss Rachel’s fish pool with Dill the night before he leaves. They
look for Mr. Avery, who lives across the street from Mrs. Dubose and whom they once watched urinate
an impressive distance. Dill casually suggests they go for a walk, something nobody does in Maycomb.
Jem agrees and assures Scout that they are not disobeying Atticus. They stroll down the sidewalk and try
to send Scout home. They explain that they are going to look into Boo Radley’s window, since if he kills
them now, they will just miss school. Jem complains that Scout is acting more and more like a girl, so she
feels compelled to join them.

They slip under the wire fence in the back of the Radley Place and creep to the back porch. Jem and
Scout boost Dill up so he can look in the window, but he only sees curtains. Jem ignores Scout’s
insistence that they leave, creeps onto the porch, and peeks in another window. Scout sees the shadow
of a man wearing a hat come toward them and then disappear. Jem and Dill freeze and then they all race
back to the fence. They hear a shotgun go off as they reach the wire fence. Jem gets his pants stuck and
ditches them in his escape.

The children race across the schoolyard and reach the Finches’ back porch before strolling casually to
where neighbors are gathered at the Radley front gate. Jem insists that they have to go, or it will look
suspicious. Miss Maudie tells the children that Nathan Radley shot at a black man in his collard patch
and Miss Stephanie notices that Jem is not wearing pants. Dill explains that he won Jem’s pants in a
game of strip poker, which the adults seem to buy. Scout has no idea what strip poker is. Miss Rachel
shrieks about children gambling on her property and Atticus asks if the children were playing cards. Jem
says they were playing with matches, which is still bad but better than cards. Exasperated, Atticus bans
poker, sends them home, and tells Jem to get his pants back.

Dill is comforted, but Jem still has no pants. Before they say goodbye, Dill kisses Scout and bawls, asking
them to write. On the sleeping porch later, Scout and Jem barely sleep, waiting for Boo Radley to jump
them. Jem whispers that he is going for his pants when they see Atticus’s light go out. Scout tries to talk
him out of it, noting that Atticus will whip him but that this is better than getting shot by Nathan Radley.
Jem mutters that he does not remember the last time Atticus whipped him and wants to keep it this way.
This is beyond Scout’s understanding, but she waits for Jem to return and hopes that Atticus stays asleep.
Jem returns a while later with his pants and goes to bed.

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