The Flight of Pony Baker

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The Flight of Pony Baker is a book by William Dean Howells. The text says of one mother that she was not exactly a bad mother, and she was not exactly a good mother. The text adds that she was first-rate when he was sick, and that when he was just lonesome, she would sit by his bed if he asked her.

The boys go into the woods for pawpaw branches and fight the bumblebees, and when they drive the bees off, they dig their nest out and find it beautifully built in regular cells of gray paper. Pony is shown wishing that something would make him tell what he was going to do, so that he could be kept from doing it.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.