To Kill a Mockingbird [antikvár]

My father, Atticus Finch, practiced law in May comb. Maycomb was a tired old town1 when I first knew it. Grass grew in the streets and in rainy weather the streets were very dirty. The life was quiet for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. We lived in the centre of the town - Atticus, Jem and 1, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father good énough; he played with us, read to us, and was always kind. Oiír mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. Atticus met her when he was no more young. Mother was fifteen years younger than he. They had been married a year when Jem wasborn, four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack. Jem and í loved each other very much and had no other friends. But when I was almost six and Jem nearly ten, Dili came to us. Dili was from Meridián, Mississippi. He was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel Haverford, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on.2 His mother worked for a photographer in Meridián. Dilis hair was snow white, and his eyes were blue. When he was teliing a story his eyes would lighten and darken, his laugh was sudden and happy. He was a year my senior. I asked Dili where his father was: "You have not said anything about him." "I haven't got one." "Is he dead?" ;;no ..." "Then íf he's not dead you Ve got one, haven't you ?" 1 a tired old town - CTapnft ropoA, KOTopbifi ycTaji ot Ao^irofi JKH3JÍH 2 from now on - Tenepb BcerAa (c atoro BpeMCHH)