Journal #2- Chapters 4-7 Perspective: Jem

Finally, summer is here. Scout and I were so excited to be gettin' out of school, and Dill is coming back for the summer from Meridian. The first 2 days of summer we were tired. We walked around wondering what the summer would bring us. Me and Scout were walking around before Dill came, and we found gum! We found the gum, and we also found a small box with gum wrappers. It was a small box, like the kinds that wedding rings come in. We opened that box and found 2 polished Indian-Heads. They were old, one from 1906 and one from 1900. Scout told me we should keep 'em, but I said no. they were somebody's special coins, that why they were all polished and nice. Scout asked me if I thought that was somebody's hidin' place. I told her no. Grown people don't have hiding places! But, i decided to keep them 'till school starts, then we'd ask around to see if they belonged to anybody. Two days later, Dill came. At first, we didn't know what games to play. We rolled around in the tire, then Scout fell out and tumbled into the Radley's gate. We stopped playing with the tire. We couln't think of any more games. All the ones that were suggested seemed boring. So, we all decided to make a new game. Boo Radley. Scout was scared, but we played anyways. We played until Atticus caught us and asked if we were playing the Radleys. I said no.

Me and Dill got closer this summer. We stopped hanging out with Scout that much, she always acted like such a girl! So Scout hung around Miss Maudie. One day, Scout came into the yard where me and Dill were planning. We were going to put a letter in Boo's house, and she had to come with us. I kept trying to get the letter in the blinds, but it kept falling. Soon, Atticus caught us again. He told us not to mess with Mr. Radley anymore. We listened, but we wanted to take a peek to see if Boo really lived in there. On the last day of summer, and the last day that Dill would be with us, we decided to sneak into his backyard and look in the window. We saw a shadow, then we ran. I lost my pants on the way home, and Dill covered for me. He told Atticus and Ms. Rachel that we were playing strip poker by the fishpool and that he won my pants. Very early the next morning, I went back to get my pants. I returned to my bed trembling.