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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 "Go on with your game, boys," Atticus said to the children.
2 Dill wanted the Rover Boys because there were three respectable parts.
3 "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.
4 "If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man," said Atticus.
5 He's gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin whatever boys do, so you just come right on in the kitchen when you feel lonesome.
6 The three of us were the boys who got into trouble; I was the probate judge, for a change; Dill led Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps, poking him with the brushbroom.
7 The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.
8 One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver, resisted arrest by Maycomb's ancient beadle, Mr. Conner, and locked him in the courthouse outhouse.
9 The judge decided to send the boys to the state industrial school, where boys were sometimes sent for no other reason than to provide them with food and decent shelter: it was no prison and it was no disgrace.
10 The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female.