Boo Radley leaves little gifts in the hollowed out knot-hole of an old tree on his family's property. Scout and Jem find these gifts and keep them. They are excited to discover what the next gift will be. Jem has a trunk in his room, and he decides that this is where he will keep all the gifts from the knot-hole. He makes this decision after finding the two Indian-head pennies:
"Well, Indian-heads—well, they come from the Indians. They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests… these are real valuable to somebody. I'm gonna put 'em in my trunk" (To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 4).
Scout and Jem continue to find gifts in the knot-hole of the tree. One day, they find a pair of soap figurines. They are the figures of a boy and a girl carved from bars of soap. As Jem and Scout examine the figures, they realize that the boy and girl resemble themselves. As he had done with other items from the knot-hole, Jem places the soap figures in his trunk when he gets back home.
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