Scout has heard all kind of rumours about Boo Radley and she wants to check her father's version against that of such people as the town gossip Miss Stephanie Crawford.
According to local tales, Boo is a drooling maniac, a peeping Tom, prone to violence (as when he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors). He also eats raw squirrels and prowls around at night, much like a nocturnal animal. All of this is interesting enough, but even to Scout, these stories have a hollow ring....
Scout knows her father is an honest man, not given to exaggeration or gullible enough to fall for 'tall tales.' She wants to get more reliable information from a more reliable source. So she pops the question to Atticus since she knows that is the best place to go.
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