To Kill a Mockingbird1962

Jem:
There goes the meanest man that ever took a breath of life.

Dill Harris:
Why is he the meanest man?

Jem:
Well, for one thing, he has a boy named Boo that he keeps chained to a bed in the house over yonder. Boo only comes out at night when you're asleep and it's pitch-dark. When you wake up at night, you can hear him. Once I heard him scratchin' on our screen door, but he was gone by the time Atticus got there.

Dill Harris:
I wonder what he does in there? I wonder what he looks like?

Jem:
Well, judgin' from his tracks, he's about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There's a long, jagged scar that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.