Personal Narrative: To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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I was sitting in the living room listening to my radio until all the sudden I heard the gate opening in my backyard and so I turned my radio off to listen to the noise outback. I heard lots of whispers coming from the porch I thought it was someone trying to rob me. I grabbed my shotgun and ran out the door and fired a warning shot and I think I scared the pants off the people because they bolted out of my yard and just kept running. I tried to see who it was but it was to dark to see them I was sure everyone in the neighborhood was inspecting a reason on why I shot my gun off so I went inside set my gun by the door to the porch incase the robbers came back again.
When I walked out the front door I was sure that everyone in maycomb heard me

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