TO KIll A Mockingbird
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US South)Transcript
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make, UM, was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather, the streets turned to red slop. Grass grew on the sidewalks. The courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow it was hotter than a black dog suffered on a summer's day. Bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square, men's stiff colors wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathes before noon after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People move slowly. Then they ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it took their time about everything. A day was 24 hours long, but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people make. Um, County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.