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Copyright © 1960 by Harper Lee, ©  \nrenewed 1998.  \nForeward copyright © 1993 by Harper Lee. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street,  \nNew York, NY 10022  \nHarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information please write, Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY  \n10022  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon  \nrequest.  \nISBN: 978-0-06-198026-8  \n10 11 12 13 ID/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nFor Mr. Lee and Alice in consideration of Love and Affection  \nLawyer` s, I suppose, were children once.  \n—Charles Lamb  \nForeward  \nPlease spare Mockingbird an Introduction. As a reader I loathe Introductions. To novels, I associate Introductions with long-gone authors and works that are being brought back into print after decades of interment.  \nAlthough Mockingbird will be 33 this year, it has never been out of print and I am still alive, although very quiet. Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustate curiosity. The only good thing about Introductions is that in some cases they delay the dose to come. Mockingbird still says what it has to say; it has managed to survive the years without preamble.  \nHarper Lee  \n12 February 1993  \nPART ONE  \n1  \nWhen he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken  \nat the elbow. When it healed, and Jem ’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt.  \nWhen enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.  \nI said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t? We were far too old to settle an argument with a fistfight, so we consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right.  \nBeing Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens. Mindful of John Wesley’s strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel. So Simon, having forgotten his teacher ’s dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on  \nthe banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens. He returned to Saint Stephens only once, to find a wife, and with her established a line that ran high to daughters. 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