Jem 12.22.08

Me and Scout were walkin' and we found a crazy dog. It was my idea to run and tell Calpurnia. She called Atticus and all of the neighbors, she even knocked on the Radley's door which i though was crazy but somethin' happened later that was even crazier. I always thought that Atticus couldn't shoot. As it turned out, he was the best shooter in Maycomb County. They called him old one-shot Finch. I turned into a shock when i found this out. I wanted to talk to him but i didn't know what to say. The dog was killed with one shot by Atticus. he knew exactly what to do, and first Scout and i were scared because we thought he was goin' to shoot his foot, but he didn't.
Scout and i hate Mrs. Dubose. I think she is a bad old woman. She says things that make me want to rip her head off. She was saying things about Atticus that i didn't like and finally i lost my head. I tore up all of her bushes. Then Atticus made me apologize and i had to read to her for two hours everyday after school and on Saturdays for a month. I really don't know why Scout came with me, i think she just didn't want Mrs. Dubose to kill me. She had an alarm clock and it would go off and Jessie would throw us out the door as soon as it went off. Atticus told me and Scout that she was sick because she had a morphine addiction. I finally got to stop reading to her. She died a couple of days later. She made Jessie make me a box. This upset me and I threw it in the fire and cried into Atticus's arms. I really don't know why I threw that box into the fire, I guess I just wanted her to leave me alone.