Pants

Dill and I made a new plan, to peek through a loose shutter into the Radley place. I wanted to know if Boo was alive. Scout didn’t want us to go, but she still followed us. Jem was the one to peek in through the window, but then a shadow of a man saw him. I was so scared I put my hands to my face. Jem came a runnin’ towards us. Scout and I rolled under the fence and heard ‘em nasty gun shots. 

Jem was stuck. He had a kick his pants off to escape, and was left in his shorts. We ran back to their house. Atticus asked us what was wrong. We couldn’t tell him what had happened back yonder at the Radley place. He saw Jem’s pants were missin’ and I told him I won ‘em from him playing strip poker. We didn’t get in trouble.