afraidest

Updated: May 7, 2025

It did not seem as if she could be a good mother when she tried, and she was about the afraidest mother in the Boy's Town. All the way up to the court-house the boys kept snickering and whispering, "Don't stump your toe, child," and "Be careful of the child, boys," and things like that till Pony had to fight some of them. Then they stopped. They were afraid his father would hear, anyway.

William Dean Howells - The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story