chapter 4

During Scout's school is was dull, and pestering by all the interdicts of Miss Caroline to not go ahead of her curriculum. When Scout was walking by the Radley place she found a tinfoil out of a knothole in a oak tree, where she found two pieces of chewing gum. Scout tell Jem and he immediately tells her to spit out the gum.  The next time Scout and Jem passes by the Radley place, they both find a Indian-head” pennies hidden in the same knothole where the gums were found. School year ends and summer begins, Dill is back and they all start playing their games. The first game they played was to get inside the tire and roll. When it was Scout's turn she rolles into the Radley place and both Jem and Dill panic and immediately Scout gets out of the Radley place.  After this incident Jem invents a game dealing with Boo Radley, the game was acting out as if they were the Radley family. Atticus catches them cutting the newspaper with the scissors and suspects they were playing out the incident of the Radleys, and tell them to stop playing. The children decide to stop playing the game since it might not be safe to keep playing it.