[
 {"chunk": 46, "story": 2, "summary": "An old sledge-driver sits motionless in the falling snow, bent double, having had no fare all day, until an officer hails him.", "predicament": "An old man carrying a fresh grief sits out in the cold at his work, waiting for anyone at all to need him."},
 {"chunk": 47, "story": 2, "summary": "Flustered by the traffic and cursed at from all sides, the driver tries to tell his passenger that his son died this week; the man asks what of, then everyone shouts at him to watch the road.", "predicament": "A grieving man tries to tell a customer that his child has just died, and is cut short before he can go on."},
 {"chunk": 48, "story": 2, "summary": "The officer shuts his eyes and won't listen; later three rowdy young men haggle him down, squabble over the seats and mock his cap.", "predicament": "A bereaved man takes whatever work comes, however insulting, just to have people near him."},
 {"chunk": 49, "story": 2, "summary": "The young men curse and hit him and he laughs along, their abuse easing his loneliness; when he says his son has died, one replies that we shall all die and tells him to hurry.", "predicament": "A man in mourning puts up with abuse from strangers because it is company, and they brush off his loss in a phrase."},
 {"chunk": 50, "story": 2, "summary": "He begins to tell them how his son died but they arrive and leave; alone again, his misery returns worse, and a doorman he speaks to only tells him to move on.", "predicament": "A man who needs to speak of his grief searches the passing crowd for one person who will stop and listen."},
 {"chunk": 51, "story": 2, "summary": "Giving up, he goes back to the crowded lodging early without enough earned for oats; he tells a young man drinking water that his son is dead.", "predicament": "A man who has given up on strangers goes home and tries one last time to tell someone he knows."},
 {"chunk": 52, "story": 2, "summary": "The young man is already asleep; aching to tell the whole story properly, the old man goes out to the stable and tells it all to his horse.", "predicament": "A man with no one who will hear his grief pours it out to the only creature that will stay and listen."}
]