"I wonder what they're doing out there at this time of night," I was thinking out loud as Nathan came in to see why I was looking out the window.

"Uh, nothing Nathan, I just thought I heard a sound, but it was nothing. Really."

"No, don't look out there!" I said as I pushed him away from the window, but it was no use, he had already seen the children on our property and was

"Naw, they came too late. Jem Finch lied through his teeth and the other boy said he lost his pants from playing strip poker. Well, I taught them. See if they ever come 'round here again."

I walked back inside to find Nathan sitting in his favorite lounge chair and laughing hysterically.

As Nathan went to the front of the house to explain the gunshot and his anger to the crowd that had suddenly gathered, I went out back to retrieve Jem Finch's pants. They were terribly crumpled and had a rip in them from the fence. Well he's eventually going to come back for them so I should probably fix them for him. I brought them back to the house and went into my mother's little sewing box. I've never sewn an inch in my life, but a little mending was better than nothing. As it turned out, sewing wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, but it didn't exactly look perfect either. I used a hot iron to straighten o

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