In Chapter 4, Scout is passing the Radleys' home and notices a shiny object coming from the knothole of the giant oak tree in the Radleys' yard. Scout runs over to the tree and grabs two sticks of Wrigley's Double-Mint chewing gum out of the knothole. When she gets home, she unwraps the gum and sniffs it to make sure it isn't poisonous. Jem returns home and asks Scout where she got the wad of chewing gum. Scout tells Jem she found it sticking out of the tree in the Radley yard and Jem yells at her to immediately spit out the gum. Scout obeys Jem by spitting out the gum and then informs him she's been chewing it all day. Jem is still under the impression that everything associated with the Radleys is harmful and tells Scout she's not even supposed to touch the Radleys' trees, let alone eat anything she finds in them. Jem insists what Scout did was deadly and commands her to gargle the taste out of her mouth.
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