Chapter 10

That Christmas Atticus had gotten Jem and I air rifles. Atticus wouldn't teach us to shoot though so Uncle Jack did. Atticus told Jem that he'd rather him shoot at tin cans in the backyard than at birds or other living things. He said that he knows Jem will go after birds and to hit all the bluejays he wants, but leave the mockingbirds alone. Atticus said that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Later that day Jem and I saw a mad dog coming down the street. It was odd seeing as that usually happened in summer but we went in to tell Cal. She thought that Jem was just telling a story but went out to see for herself. She ran into the house and called Atticus to tell him. After calling him, she called Miss Eula May and asked her to call everyone with a phone. After, she ran over to the Radley house and started banging on the door yelling about the mad dog. When she came back Atticus was pulling up with the sheriff. They had to shoot the dog but the sheriff wanted Atticus to do it. He was leery, but in the end got him on the first shot. That's when I found out that Atticus was the deadest shot in Maycomb.