Chapter Eleven
Rodney Gets into It
Nights when she wasn’t confined to her bed, Dori was in her stall in one of the barns. Each stall was about half the usual 10 X 10 enclosure used in horse barns, but most of the décor was the same as in a fine equestrian stable. Another variation however, was the neck stocks frame that was designed to hold the ponies firmly in the desired position with their heads sticking out into the aisle so that they could be watched and cared for. The design of this device had been carefully thought out. It was intended to hold the pony either with its head in the aisle or inside the stall behind a sliding door that could close off the stall. Ponies that received punishment for misbehavior were often positioned behind the locked sliding door. The stocks were a heav
