It was alive and moving, but it wasn't a snake, as Scout found out one night in Chapter 14 of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. One night as Scout was going to bed, she stepped on something "warm, resilient and rather smooth."
...It was not quite like hard rubber, and I had the sensation that it was alive. I also heard it move.
Thinking it was a reptile, she called out to Jem, who was in the adjoining room. He went to the kitchen and returned with a broom. Ever the protector, Jem ordered Scout to get on the bed. Remembering Miss Rachel's encounter with a rattler in her own home, Jem carefully took a swipe and then another.
"Do snakes grunt?"
"It ain't a snake," Jem said. "It's somebody."
Indeed, it was only Dill, who had "escaped" from his folks in Meridian and taken a train to Maycomb Junction. Dusty and hungry, he had walked the remainder of the way to Maycomb,
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