THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER: A Boy's Town Story (Illustrated)
Children's Classic from the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life & Indian SummerBy William Dean Howells
Length4h 11m
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The Flight of Pony Baker is a novel for children which tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters. The setting of the story is "fifty years ago" in the Boy's Town of Ohio, the state where Howells was born and raised. Pony lives in the Boy's Town with his mother, father, and five sisters, whom his mother always wants him to play with. Pony's mother is very overprotective of Pony, which makes her a bad mother when it comes to having fun. Pony's father has done some things that have given Pony the right to run away as well. An older boy named Jim Leonard suggests that Pony go with the Indians and that the Indians would like him and then adopt him into their tribe.
Extract:
"If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else."
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 2, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER: A Boy's Town Story
8VII. How Frank Baker Spent The Fourth At Pawpaw Bottom, And Saw The Fourth Of July Boy
2I. Pony’s Mother, And Why He Had A Right To Run Off
9VIII. How Pony Baker Came Pretty Near Running Off With A Circus
3II. The Right That Pony Had To Run Off, From The Way His Father Acted
10IX. How Pony Did Not Quite Get Off With The Circus
4III. Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape
11X. The Adventures That Pony’s Cousin, Frank Baker, Had With A Pocketful Of Money
5IV. The Scrape That Jim Leonard Got The Boys Into
12XI. How Jim Leonard Planned For Pony Baker to Run Off On A Raft
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6V. About Running Away To The Indian Reservation On A Canal-boat, And How The Plan Failed
13XII. How Jim Leonard Backed Out, and Pony Had To Give It Up
7VI. How The Indians Came To The Boy’s Town And Jim Leonard Acted The Coward
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