This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.
Mockingbirds don__ do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don__ eat up people__ gardens, don__ nest in corncribs, they don__ do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That__ why it__ a sin to kill a mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Mockingbirds don__ do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don__ eat up people__ gardens, don__ nest in corncribs, they don__ do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That__ why it__ a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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