In Chapter 6 Dill, Jem and Scout just finished attempting to get in contact with Boo Radley, but whilst attempting this Atticus caught them at the scene and told them to stop bothering him.

They sneak behind the Radley house, but see the shape of a man on the back porch and run. A shotgun fires behind them. As they duck under the Radley fence, Jem’s pants get caught. He leaves his pants behind. The shotgun blasts the one Nathan Radley had shot into the air had awoken the neighborhood. Jem’s missing pants cause suspicion, but the kids says Jem lost them playing strip poker with matches.This suprises Maycomb because gambling is seen as a sin and it is against the religious life they life in. Also late that night, Jem sneaks out and retrieves his pants, and returns home unharmed.

Jem and Dill start excluding Scout, who begins to spend more time with Miss Maudie Atkinson, a neighbor who grew up with Atticus. One evening, Scout asks Miss Maudie why Boo Radley never comes out. Miss Maudie says it’s because Boo doesn’t want to. She says Boo was always polite as a boy, and that Boo’s father was a Baptist so religious he thought all pleasure was a sin.

The next day, Dill and Jem get Scout to help them try to slip a note through a window of the Radley house with a fishing rod. Atticus catches them and tells them to stop bothering Boo Radley.