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Read this passage from 'To Kill a Mockingbird':   “Dear sir,” said Jem. “We appreciate the — no, we appreciate everything which you have put into the tree for us. Yours very truly, Jeremy Atticus Finch.” " “He won’t know who you are if you sign it like that, Jem.” " Jem erased his name and wrote, “Jem Finch.” I signed, “Jean Louise Finch (Scout),” beneath it. Jem put the note in an envelope. " Next morning on the way to school he ran ahead of me and stopped at the tree. Jem was facing me when he looked up, and I saw him go stark white. " “Scout!” " I ran to him. " Someone had filled... Show more

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“Dear sir,” said Jem. “We appreciate the — no, we appreciate everything which you have put into the tree for us. Yours very truly, Jeremy Atticus Finch.”
" “He won’t know who you are if you sign it like that, Jem.”
" Jem erased his name and wrote, “Jem Finch.” I signed, “Jean Louise Finch (Scout),” beneath it. Jem put the note in an envelope.
" Next morning on the way to school he ran ahead of me and stopped at the tree. Jem was facing me when he looked up, and I saw him go stark white.
" “Scout!”
" I ran to him.
" Someone had filled our knot-hole with cement." “Don’t you cry, now, Scout…don’t cry now, don’t you worry” he muttered at me all the way to school.
" When we went home for dinner Jem bolted his food, ran to the porch and stood on the steps. I followed him. “Hasn’t passed by yet,” he said.
" Next day Jem repeated his vigil and was rewarded.
" “Hidy do, Mr Nathan,” he said.
" “Morning Jem, Scout,” said Mr Radley, as he went by.
" “Mr Radley, ah — did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder?”
" “Yes,” he said, “I filled it up.”
" “Why’d you do it, sir?”
" “Tree’s dying. You plug ‘em with cement when they’re sick. You ought to know that, Jem.”
" Jem said nothing more about it until late afternoon. When we passed our tree he gave it a meditative pat on its cement, and remained deep in thought. He seemed to be working himself into a bad humor, so I kept my distance.
" As usual, we met Atticus coming home from work that evening. When we were at our steps, Jem said, “Atticus, look down yonder at that tree, please sir.”
" “What tree, son?”
" “That one on the corner of the Radley lot comin’ from school.”
" “Yes?”
" “Is that tree dyin’?”
" “Why no, son, I don’t think so. Look at the leaves, they’re all green and full, no brown patches anywhere — "
" "It ain't even sick?"
" "That tree's as healthy as you are, Jem. Why?"
" "Mr Nathan Radley said it was dyin'."
" "Well maybe it is. I'm sure Mr Radley knows more about his trees than we do."

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