A sickly dog named Tim Johnson frightened the citizens of Maycomb when he hobbled out onto Oak St near the Radley household looking more gruesome than a cat with its hindquarters cut off. Mid afternoon, Calpurnia of the Finch household alerted Eula May of a “mad dog” heading through the neighborhood. Sheriff Heck Tate and Atticus Finch both instantly arrived at the scene only to see an empty street and fearful people waiting anxiously behind closed doors. Jem Finch, Atticus’s boy, reported to us that he had overheard his father and the sheriff bickering about who would put down the dog before it became a major problem. He said, “My father was trying real hard not to have to shoot. He didn’t want nothing to do with it, but sheriff couldn’t