Pass a Bill or Shove it Up Your Ass.

[ashling]

114. Thank you for the unsolicited literature lesson

Now, about my post.

I was trying to politely point to a mistake / typo in your post:

warning them that they should shoot only at tin-cans and finches but not at mockingbirds

Atticus said they could shoot tin cans and blue Jays. Though your use of Sparknotes does not mention this,

(tsk, tsk - sorry, my dad was an English teacher. In high school I would not be caught dead referring to Cliff's Notes)

The avian metaphor is extended here to reference the fact that while mockingbirds “sing their hearts out for us,” blue jays are known to take and eat eggs and nestlings of other birds, i.e. Boo's father, et al.