(..) Now who's the coward? You tell them about this... back in Meridian County, Mr Dill Harris. I'll tell you what let's do. Let's go down to the courthouse, and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My aunt says it's bat-infested, and he nearly died from the mildew. Come on! I bet they got chains (..)

(..) They wanted to send him to an asylum, but his daddy said... "No Radley's goin' to any asylum." So they locked him up in the basement ofthe courthouse... till he nearly died ofthe damp, and his daddy brought him back home. There he is to this day, sittin' over there with his scissors. (..)