Hi Everyone! My name is Jean Lousie Finch, but everybody calls me Scout. I am 6 years old and have a brother who is 10 years old. I thought today I would tell you a little bit about my friend and cook. Her name is Calpurnia, but we call her Cal. 
Cal is very stubborn and she always gets me into trouble. Cal is never wrong- because Atticus always takes her side. She is a grown up after all and Atticus has known Cal for a real long time too. Cal has been our cook since always! She's cooked for us since my big brother Jem was born, and that means that she has taken care of me since I was a baby too. Cal is a smart lady, she is a colored lady and she is ony of the only ones in town who can read and write, she taught me how to write too. I learned to read from Atticus, he reads me books and I look and listen to the words. I like reading books and drawing pictures. I drew a picture of Cal and me. I am wearing my favorite overalls and she is wearing her favorite dress and matching shoes.This is one of her church outfits, she goes to a different church than we do, cause she's colored. I wish we could all just go to the same church. Cal is smiling in the picture but in real life Cal does not smile that much, she gets mad at me an awful lot like when I am late commin home she hollers real loud. She gets real worked up over silly things, she does not have to though, all she has to do is be nice to me and I would come home right on time! She hollers though and if Atticus hears then I get in trouble, maybe one day we will come up with a secret code or somethin, one time me and Jem made a knockin code. So if you wanted something you would knock on the floor and listen for an answer, one knock meant" come into my room I will help" and two meant "go away I don't care" Jem usually knocked two times so it was not really a fair code. Oh gosh darn cotton pickers, I can hear her shouting for dinner right now, and then I will walk Jem to school. I should go see Atticus and see if he will let me play outside while Jem is at school. There is a bunch of That would be real fun, I could go and visit Miss. Maudie and we could talk about her flowers. She is a neighbour of ours, maybe sometime I will write about her too!This is how you get to Jem's school. Miss Maudie's house is right across the street, see it?
Cal is very stubborn and she always gets me into trouble. Cal is never wrong- because Atticus always takes her side. She is a grown up after all and Atticus has known Cal for a real long time too. Cal has been our cook since always! She's cooked for us since my big brother Jem was born, and that means that she has taken care of me since I was a baby too. Cal is a smart lady, she is a colored lady and she is ony of the only ones in town who can read and write, she taught me how to write too. I learned to read from Atticus, he reads me books and I look and listen to the words. I like reading books and drawing pictures. I drew a picture of Cal and me. I am wearing my favorite overalls and she is wearing her favorite dress and matching shoes.This is one of her church outfits, she goes to a different church than we do, cause she's colored. I wish we could all just go to the same church. Cal is smiling in the picture but in real life Cal does not smile that much, she gets mad at me an awful lot like when I am late commin home she hollers real loud. She gets real worked up over silly things, she does not have to though, all she has to do is be nice to me and I would come home right on time! She hollers though and if Atticus hears then I get in trouble, maybe one day we will come up with a secret code or somethin, one time me and Jem made a knockin code. So if you wanted something you would knock on the floor and listen for an answer, one knock meant" come into my room I will help" and two meant "go away I don't care" Jem usually knocked two times so it was not really a fair code. Oh gosh darn cotton pickers, I can hear her shouting for dinner right now, and then I will walk Jem to school. I should go see Atticus and see if he will let me play outside while Jem is at school. There is a bunch of That would be real fun, I could go and visit Miss. Maudie and we could talk about her flowers. She is a neighbour of ours, maybe sometime I will write about her too!This is how you get to Jem's school. Miss Maudie's house is right across the street, see it?
