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In her box stall on 52nd Street, Fintzi’s shaggy draft horse Stella, a Chicago carriage horse until that city banned the practice in 2020, nibbled hay on a recent afternoon.

During the week of rain, Jody kept the pony in the box stall out of the dampness, except for a little time after school when he took him out for exercise and to drink at the water-trough in the upper corral.

Jody’s father moved over toward the one box stall.

Jody spent most of his time, when he wasn’t in school, in the box stall with Nellie.

When the rains fell, he put Nellie in a box stall and fed her warm food every morning and curried her and brushed her.