Today, Calpurnia brought Jem and me to First Purchase- the church for the blacks. Cal had me scrubed all over and got me into the starchiest dress ever!

I dont understand why Cal was talking like the blacks.- that's something i got to ask. Cal got into some sort of quarrel with a tall negro woman whom they called Lula. They quarrelled about us- Jem and me and i suddenly felt like going home.

When we finally went into First Purchase, I wondered why there were no hymn-books. I was immediately answered when Zeebo led the hymns. He sang a line and we simply repeated. Cal told me this was called lining. It was definitely better than other hymns we sang on normal sundays!

We had a morning offering and Reverend Skyes insisted that he must have at least ten dollars to help Helen, Tom Robinson's wife. He shut the doors and I felt suffocated. Slowly, Reverend Skyes finally generated ten dollars.

We sang -or rather lined- our last hymn and talked to Reverend Skyes after the service.

we were reaching home when Jem noticed Aunt Alexandra sitting at the porch- all alone. It turns out the Aunt Alexandra is going to stay here permanently!- this is no good, no good at all..

She is calling me now. I hope I am not in for one of the ' why- are- you-in -overalls' lecture again.