A scene from To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
Jeremy 'Jem' Finch Phillip Alford

[to Scout, about Mrs. Dubose]

Listen, no matter what she says to you, don't answer her back. There's a Confederate pistol in her lap under her shawl and she'll kill you quick as look at you. Come on.

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