The Ponder Heart Author:Welty, Eudora The Ponder Heart is one of Eudora Welty's happiest books, and Uncle Daniel Ponder one of her most triumphant creations. The trouble with Uncle Daniel was that he was not only generous but rich, and when he got started giving away, his own niece Edna Earle couldn't stop him. In fact, he married a second time in order to have someone close by to... more » give things to. His wife, 17-year-old, Bonnie Dee Peacock, was a little thing from the country who looked as though a good gust of wind might carry her off. Something like that did happen to her, in time, and Uncle Daniel Found himself in the Clay Courthouse being tried for murder.« less