Chapters 9 & 10

I don't know what happened to make Scout do what she did. Well I knew she hated Francis, but I didn't think it would go ths far. They were okay most of the night. After dinner I came out and checked on them, reckoned they were fightin' by now, but they were just standin' there, so I went back in. I stayed in there for a while, thought since they weren't fightin' now, they wouldn't, boy was I wrong. Next thing I know, I hear Francis screamin' for Aunt Alexandra. I run out and I saw Uncle Jack beatin' Scout. I got the story from everyone. Francis was callin' Atticus, well Atticus told us not to say it, but you know what I mean...black man-lover. Scout told him to stop, but he kept goin' and goin' and Scout had enough. I don't blame her, but she could've handled this better, so she wouldn't have to of get beaten.


Scout is always sayin' how Atticus can't do nothin' 'cause he's old, now I don't completely disagree, but he is kinda old. Now for Christmas, me and Scout got air rifles and we wanted to go in the woods and use them. We were just lookin' and walkin' 'round when we saw ol' Tim Johnson and he was lokin' real sick. We wen back to the house and grabbed Calpurnia. We took her to the spot where we saw the dog and she yelled at us to get inside. She called Atticus and then she started screamin' "RAPID DOG, MAD DOG" all over the town. When Atticus arrived with Heck Tate, the sheriff, Tim Johnson was already at the Radley gate. Heck and Atticus were arguin' 'bout who's gonna shoot the dog. After a little bit, Heck handed the gun to Atticus and Actticus shot the dog...perfect aim. We had asked Miss Maudie and she said that our dad used to be Old One-Shot Finch. Scout was ready to tell the whole school 'bout this, but I told her that if Atticus didn't tell us, maybe he didn't want us to know. So we kept it a secret and found that Atticus isn't too old to do stuff.