Dill on taking a peek at Boo Radley:
"'What are you going to do?'
Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley, and if I didn't want to go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut."
Scout hearing Dill and Jem's plan-51
It was my last night in Maycomb, Alabama for the summer. Jem and I were going to sneak a glance at Boo Radley that night. Scout came with Jem when he came over. Idly, I said we should go for a walk. Scout's suspicious smile told me that she wasn't taking my story. When we got to the streetlight, she figured out our plan. She kept asking questions. "But what in the sam holy hill did you wait till tonight?" She didn't understand. "Because nobody can see us at night, because Atticus is so deep in a book that he won't hear the Kingdom coming, because if Boo kills us, we will miss school, not vacation and because it's easier to see into a dark house in the dark." Scout ended up joining us in our expedition. Under the wire fence, through the garden, spitting on the squeaky gate to get by was our path. We got up on the porch, but the curtains in the window obstructed our view. We had started to leave when we saw a shadow. Jem dashed. We heard a shotgun go off. Scout and I were ahead, but when we turned around, we found Jem getting out of his pants, as they were stuck. The entire neighborhood was circled around the Radley's gate. We strolled as casually as possible and joined them. Then Atticus noticed Jem's lack of pants. I told him that I won them playing strip poker. Atticus told me to give them back to Jem, and then for all of us to head home. I said goodbye, then kissed Scout. "Yawl write, hear?" I never figured out what happened to Jem, and if he got in trouble, for playing poker, or for anything else, but I do hope that Jem got his pants back.