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Summary Chapter 3

Scout finds and beats Walter in the schoolyard until Jem pulls her off. She explains the situation to Jem,
who realises that Walter is Mr. Cunningham’s son, invites Walter for lunch, and assures him that Scout
will not jump him. Jem boasts about having touched the Radley house on the way home. At the table,
Atticus and Walter discuss farming. Walter asks if there is any syrup and Calpurnia brings him the pitcher.
He pours it over his plate until Scout asks what he is doing, at which point he puts it down and looks
ashamed. Atticus shakes his head at Scout and Calpurnia calls Scout into the kitchen. Calpurnia scolds
Scout for her rudeness, so Scout brings her plate into the kitchen. Scout scathingly tells Calpurnia that
Calpurnia has already gotten her in trouble today for teaching her to write.

After lunch, Scout tells Atticus that Calpurnia is horrible and asks him to fire her. Atticus stonily refuses,
so Scout concentrates on hating Calpurnia the entire way back to school. In class, Miss Caroline shrieks
and boys crowd around her, looking for a mouse. She shakily points to a hulking boy and says that “it”
crawled out of the boy’s hair. Little Chuck Little assures Miss Caroline that she should not be afraid of
cooties (lice), fetches her water, and steers her to her desk. Miss Caroline ascertains that the boy with
the cooties is named Burris Ewell. He does not know how to spell his name and is filthy. Miss Caroline
asks him to go home to treat his scalp and to bathe before returning.

Burris stands and laughs rudely. He says that he is already done his time, and another classmate explains
to Miss Caroline that the Ewell children come every year for the first day of school but do not come back.
He says that Mr. Ewell is contentious, and that they have no mother. Miss Caroline asks Burris to sit back
down, but he looks suddenly enraged. Chuck tells Miss Caroline to let Burris go and she takes his side.
Burris slouches to the door and once out of range, he hurls insults and slurs at Miss Caroline until she
cries. The students cluster around Miss Caroline’s desk and comfort her.

Scout races past the Radley Place that afternoon, feeling as gloomy as the house. She decides to run
away and answers Atticus’s questions about school with one-word answers. Calpurnia is oddly kind to
Scout and insists she missed Scout and Jem, so Scout decides that Calpurnia has realised the error of her
ways. After dinner, Atticus grabs the paper and invites Scout to read with him. Feeling overwhelmed, she
heads for the porch. Atticus follows. Scout insists she does not feel well and cannot go to school, but
finally tells him her tale and begs to not go back.

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