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Yesterday Atticus had caught us doin’ our game. You know, the game where we playin’ the Radleys and we act like we their family and play around. Dill is Boo’s Dad I am the wife and Jem is Boo. Jem pretends to stab Dill, I sit aroun’ cook, clean, and wipe off the porch I have been worried about playing the game ever since I heard the creepy laugh in the Radleys home. Atticus caught us playin’ the game and even thoug’ he didn’t tell us to cut it out we gonna stop the game for a while. Jem wanted to keep on playin’ but I kept after him and he finally agreed with me. I don’t like Atticus thinkin’ we’re bein’ disrespectful to dem Radleys and makin’ fun of em’ just because they got it worse than us. It don’t mean we can’t have fun.  Jem and Dill be growin’ farther and farther ways from me. They always tellin’ me to go do my girl stuff. I don’t know what girl stuff they be talkin’ about, but I had to hang out with the Missus next door. We would talk out on the porch. Talkin’ and just watchin’ the sunset. After a couple days I got bored of her and started tryin’ to hang out with Dill and Jem again. It still aint workin’out. They told me they was gonna go try to see Boo Radley. I wasn’t sure that this was a good idea, but to try to get Dill and Jem back I went along. One night we snuck in the back of the Radleys and Jem says he saw Mr. Radley and he had his shotgun. We ran for our lives. When we were crawling under the fence, Jem got his pants stuck up under there. Jem wiggled out of the pants and had to leave ‘em there. Once we escaped and got home Jem and Dill lied to Atticus and said Jem lost his pants in strip poker. We got off with just a warning. In the middle of the night Jem snuck out and went to get his pants from the fence. When he came back he told me that his pants were all stitched up just waiting for him. I don’t understand them Radley’s at all, why would they do that? Fix ‘em up for us? Maybe Atticus is right about them. Dill’s headin’ back home to Mississippi, maybe me and Jem will be like we was.