In the story, some Maycomb children broke into the house of two sisters on Halloween night. The sisters were both hard of hearing, so they did not notice when the children snuck in through an unlocked door and moved all of their furniture down to the cellar. The barefooted children then left the house without being caught.
When the sisters found out what had happened the next day, they called for the sheriff. In order to find the culprits, "Mr. Tate was obliged to go ten miles out the road, round up the county hounds, and put them on the trail" (To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 27). The guilty children found out that the bloodhounds had been sent for to sniff out the culprits of the crime. They were scared and "there was not a barefooted child to be seen in Maycomb and nobody took off his shoes until the hounds were returned." The children did not want the hounds to follow the scent from their bare feet to find them. It was never officially discovered who the children were that had hid the furniture in the basement.
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