TKAM #2: Jem

I'm going to be skinned alive someday, I just know it. So many close shaves recently, I just can't believe I'm ever going to die a normal death. First Scout finds that gum in the Radley tree, which was one of the strangest things I ever witnessed. I reckon now it might've been safe, but I'd bet anything that that was gum sent straight up from hell. Scout wasn't grateful neither, she's such a girl. I must admit though, the indian pennies we found in that tree were an absolutely lucky find. I still don't know what was happening with that knothole, and it'll go on confusing me to the day I die, I'm sure. But the indian pennies didn't bring me a whole lot of good luck neither, as Atticus caught us playing the Boo Radley game. 'Twasn't doin' nobody any harm, so I don't see why he has to come and say we ain't to do it anymore. It was awful fun, even though it got harder to play when that girl Scout chickened out on us. But Atticus figured it out right away when he caught us tryin' to deliver a letter to Boo Radley. I was let off easy on that one, probably easier than the time I was caught with my pants off in front of everybody near the Radley Place. Dill got me out of that one, bless his short soul. Things couldn't get any worse after that, but somehow they did, and Mr. Nathan Radley filled the knothole with cement. I don't know what'll happen to me now, but I think I'm done with Boo Radley for now, his bad luck can outdo indian pennies.