Chapters 4 and 5

This school's curriculum moves much too slow for a level of my intelligence. I have become bored with this school year, and i wish that it would be summer so I could leave. The strangest thing happened to me after school one day. I passed the Radley house, and i just happened to notice two pieces of chewing gum sticking out of a knothole in a tree. On a similar day, I found two indian head pennies.

Jem and Dill are becoming very close friends. It makes me miss Jem's company sometimes, but I try not to think about it. I started spending time with Maudie Atkinson. She and I are becoming good friends as well. She told me something quite unsettling the other day. She said that Boo Radley was still alive. She says that Boo was very kind and friendly when he was a child, and that most of the rumors about him are not true.