Journal #4

Journal #4
Chapters 10-12
Perspective: Scout

Today was a very crazy day Jem and I got our guns and went to go shoot birds. but on the way Jem a dog. It's name was Tim. The dog was a mad dog. After we saw it we went to go tell Cal. Then Cal went to check it out. When she saw it she went to every ones door to tell them that a mad dog was on the loose. As soon as everyone had found out Mr. Heck and Atticus came to help. Mr. Heck was the Sheriff. When they finally found out they had to kill the dog for everyone to be safe. Mr. Heck told Atticus to shoot it because he was a poor shot. When Atticus shot Tim it was with only one shot. Jem and I were staring amazed. After that Atticus and Mr. Heck left and Ms. Maudie said that we should stay away from the dog even though that it's dead. Jem was still amazed that Atticus could shoot like that. Ms. Maudie told us that when Atticus was young his nick-name was one-shot Finch. He was called that because he shot 15 birds with only 16 shots. Then after complained about wasteing ammo. JEm had wondered why Atticus had never told us about it.