Read the passage from Chapter 8 which begins at the opening of the chapter and ends "they came straight from the Rosetta Stone" carefully before you choose your answer.

The last sentence of the first paragraph implies that

(A) Mr. Avery was well educated

(B) Jem and the narrator had misbehaved

(C) the winter was unusually cold

(D) Atticus pays little attention to the weather

(E) Maycomb was full of religious and superstitious people