story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3

Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes,
keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy,
wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written
groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters
gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi

tools/story-to-pack/probe/aesop/claude/batches/s000.json

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+{"chunk": 0, "story": 0, "summary": "A lion spares a mouse who begs for its life, and later the mouse gnaws through the hunters' ropes that bind the lion.", "predicament": "Someone far beneath you whom you could crush begs to be let off and swears they will repay you one day.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 1, "story": 1, "summary": "A wolf invents one charge after another against a lamb, and when each is refuted eats him anyway.", "predicament": "Someone powerful who has already decided to ruin you keeps inventing charges, and each answer you give changes nothing.", "moral": "The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny."},
+{"chunk": 2, "story": 2, "summary": "An ass envies the grasshoppers' song, tries to live on dew as they claim to, and starves.", "predicament": "You admire a colleague's talent so much that you copy their habits, though what feeds them will not feed you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 3, "story": 3, "summary": "A crane pulls a bone from a wolf's throat and, asking for her fee, is told that keeping her head is payment enough.", "predicament": "You did risky work for someone ruthless on a promise of payment, and now they say escaping unharmed is your fee.", "moral": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains."},
+{"chunk": 4, "story": 4, "summary": "A father shows his quarrelling sons that a bundle of sticks cannot be broken though each stick alone snaps easily.", "predicament": "The people under you quarrel constantly among themselves, and you must make them see that divided they are easy prey.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 5, "story": 5, "summary": "A bat caught by two weasels claims to be a mouse to one and a bird to the other, and escapes both.", "predicament": "Two hostile powers each catch you in turn, and you could save yourself by claiming to be whatever each one tolerates.", "moral": "It is wise to turn circumstances to good account."},
+{"chunk": 6, "story": 6, "summary": "A cock scratching for food finds a jewel and says one grain of barley would be worth more to him.", "predicament": "Something others would prize highly has fallen into your hands, but it is of no use to you in your present need.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 7, "story": 7, "summary": "A swallow and a crow argue over plumage, and the crow says his feathers at least last through the winter.", "predicament": "A showy colleague belittles you, and you must decide whether to argue looks or point to what lasts when times turn hard.", "moral": "Fair weather friends are not worth much."},
+{"chunk": 8, "story": 8, "summary": "A just lion king proclaims peace between strong and weak beasts, and the hare, praising it, runs for his life.", "predicament": "A new leader declares that the weak will now stand safely beside the strong, and you are one of the weak.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 9, "story": 9, "summary": "A traveller scolds his dog for dawdling, and the dog replies that he is ready and waiting on his master.", "predicament": "Someone above you blames you for the delay, when in fact you have long been ready and are waiting on them.", "moral": "The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend."},
+{"chunk": 10, "story": 10, "summary": "A starving grasshopper who sang all summer begs food of the ants, who mock him for not saving.", "predicament": "Someone who idled while you worked and saved now comes to you hungry, asking you to share what you stored.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 11, "story": 11, "summary": "A hare mocks a tortoise's pace, sleeps during their race, and loses to her steady plodding.", "predicament": "Someone gifted mocks your slowness and accepts your challenge, sure they can win without really trying.", "moral": "Slow but steady wins the race."},
+{"chunk": 12, "story": 12, "summary": "A charcoal-burner invites a fuller to share his house to save costs, and the fuller refuses because he would blacken all his work.", "predicament": "A friend proposes sharing premises to save money, but the way they work would undo everything you do.", "moral": "Like will draw like."},
+{"chunk": 13, "story": 13, "summary": "A boy catching locusts reaches for a scorpion, which warns him he would have lost everything had he touched it.", "predicament": "You have been collecting easy wins, and the next thing you are about to grab looks like the others but is dangerous.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 14, "story": 14, "summary": "A fisherman pipes to the fish in vain, then casts his net and scolds them for dancing only now.", "predicament": "You have waited in vain for people to come round of their own accord, and could stop coaxing and use the tool you have.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 15, "story": 15, "summary": "A dog carrying meat snaps at his reflection's larger piece and loses his own.", "predicament": "You already hold something good, and a bigger prize that may not be real tempts you to let go of it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 16, "story": 16, "summary": "A carter whose wagon is stuck calls on Hercules, who tells him to put his shoulder to the wheel first.", "predicament": "Your work is stuck, and you are waiting for someone powerful to rescue you instead of putting your own effort into it.", "moral": "Self-help is the best help."},
+{"chunk": 17, "story": 17, "summary": "A blind young mole insists he can see, and his mother's test shows he cannot even smell.", "predicament": "A young person insists they have a skill they plainly lack, and you must decide how to show them without crushing them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 18, "story": 18, "summary": "A herdsman vows an offering to find his calf's thief, then finds a lion eating it and vows more to escape.", "predicament": "You swore to track down whoever took from you, and have just found out the culprit is far more dangerous than you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 19, "story": 19, "summary": "A fawn asks why his mother, bigger and armed, flees from hounds, and she admits she simply cannot help it.", "predicament": "You have every advantage over the one who frightens you, and still you cannot bring yourself to stand your ground.", "moral": "No arguments will give courage to the coward."},
+{"chunk": 20, "story": 20, "summary": "A fox betrays his partner the ass to a lion in return for his own safety, and the lion takes them both.", "predicament": "Danger threatens you and a partner, and someone powerful offers to spare you if you hand your partner over.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 21, "story": 21, "summary": "Flies gorge on spilt honey, stick fast in it and die lamenting their greed.", "predicament": "An easy pleasure is spread out in front of you, and the longer you indulge the harder it will be to get free.", "moral": "Pleasure bought with pains, hurts."},
+{"chunk": 22, "story": 22, "summary": "The beasts ask the lioness how many young she bears, and she says only one, but that one a lion.", "predicament": "Others boast of how much they produce and demand to know your numbers, when you produce little but of real quality.", "moral": "The value is in the worth, not in the number."},
+{"chunk": 23, "story": 23, "summary": "A farmer warms a frozen snake in his bosom, and it revives and bites him fatally.", "predicament": "Someone known for treachery is down and helpless, and you could take them in and nurse them back to strength.", "moral": "The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful."},
+{"chunk": 24, "story": 24, "summary": "A man points to a statue of a man strangling a lion, and the lion says a lion would have carved it the other way.", "predicament": "In a dispute over who is stronger, your rival points to evidence that was produced entirely by their own side.", "moral": "One story is good, till another is told."},
+{"chunk": 25, "story": 25, "summary": "A bramble tells a pomegranate and an apple tree to stop disputing which is more beautiful in its presence.", "predicament": "Two respected colleagues argue over who is the best, and someone who counts for nothing loudly sets themselves up as judge.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 26, "story": 26, "summary": "A stork caught in a net with thieving cranes pleads his good character, but the farmer kills him with them.", "predicament": "You are caught alongside people who were doing wrong, and your good character counts for nothing because of the company you kept.", "moral": "Birds of a feather flock together."},
+{"chunk": 27, "story": 27, "summary": "A mountain groans as if in labour, crowds gather in dread, and out comes a mouse.", "predicament": "Someone has made a huge commotion about what they are about to produce, and everyone is gathered waiting for the result.", "moral": "Don’t make much ado about nothing."},
+{"chunk": 28, "story": 28, "summary": "A bear boasts he loves men so much he never touches their dead, and a fox wishes he spared the living instead.", "predicament": "Someone boasts of their kindness in a way that costs them nothing, while they keep harming those who are still around.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 29, "story": 29, "summary": "A tortoise begs an eagle to teach her to fly, promising riches, and is dropped and dashed to pieces.", "predicament": "You long for a role quite beyond your nature, and someone offers to lift you into it if you pay well.", "moral": "If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined."},
+{"chunk": 30, "story": 30, "summary": "A fox trapped in a well praises the water to a goat, climbs out on the goat's back, and leaves him there.", "predicament": "Someone already in trouble urges you to join them in a venture, praising it highly, and you have not checked the way out.", "moral": "Look before you leap."},
+{"chunk": 31, "story": 31, "summary": "A raven envies a swan's whiteness, moves to the lakes to wash, and starves without changing colour.", "predicament": "You envy a colleague's standing and give up the work that feeds you to copy their habits, hoping to become like them.", "moral": "Change of habit cannot alter Nature."},
+{"chunk": 32, "story": 32, "summary": "A thirsty pigeon flies at a painted goblet on a signboard and breaks her wings.", "predicament": "You badly need something, and what looks like it has just appeared, so you rush at it without checking that it is real.", "moral": "Zeal should not outrun discretion."},
+{"chunk": 33, "story": 33, "summary": "A dog lying in a manger snaps at the oxen to stop them eating hay he cannot eat himself.", "predicament": "Something you cannot use yourself sits under your control, and the people who need it are waiting for you to let them have it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 34, "story": 34, "summary": "Oxen hauling a wagon rebuke the creaking axles for complaining when it is the oxen doing the work.", "predicament": "You carry the heaviest share of the work in silence, while someone who does far less complains loudly about the strain.", "moral": "Those who suffer most cry out the least."},
+{"chunk": 35, "story": 35, "summary": "Cranes learn a farmer's sling is only for show and ignore it, until he loads it with stones and kills many.", "predicament": "Someone in charge has threatened you many times without following through, and you have started to ignore the threats.", "moral": "If words suffice not, blows must follow."},
+{"chunk": 36, "story": 36, "summary": "An old lion feigns sickness and eats his visitors, until the fox notices tracks going in and none coming out.", "predicament": "A powerful person asks you to come in close to talk, and you notice that others who went in never came back.", "moral": "He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others."},
+{"chunk": 37, "story": 37, "summary": "One traveller climbs a tree and leaves his friend to face a bear, and the friend later says the bear warned him against such companions.", "predicament": "When trouble struck, your companion saved themselves and left you to face it alone, and now they joke about it.", "moral": "Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends."},
+{"chunk": 38, "story": 38, "summary": "A fox who lost his tail urges all the other foxes to cut theirs off, and one sees through him.", "predicament": "Someone who has suffered a loss urges everyone to give up the same thing, claiming it is an improvement for all.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 39, "story": 39, "summary": "A cat accuses a cock of crowing at night to justify eating him, and eats him despite his defence.", "predicament": "Someone with power over you has already decided to be rid of you and is only looking for a respectable excuse.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 40, "story": 40, "summary": "A wolf disguised in a sheep's skin is shut in the fold and killed by the shepherd who takes him for mutton.", "predicament": "You have disguised yourself as one of the harmless crowd to get what you want, and now you are treated exactly like them.", "moral": "Harm seek, harm find."},
+{"chunk": 41, "story": 41, "summary": "A goatherd breaks a stray goat's horn with a stone and begs it not to tell his master, and the goat says the horn will speak.", "predicament": "You have damaged something in your care and ask a witness to keep quiet, but the damage itself will be plain to see.", "moral": "Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid."},
+{"chunk": 42, "story": 42, "summary": "A returned traveller boasts of a great leap made abroad, and a bystander tells him to leap it here.", "predicament": "You have been boasting of a feat done far away with witnesses, and someone asks you to do it again right here.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 43, "story": 43, "summary": "A woodcutter agrees to let a lion court his daughter if he gives up his teeth and claws, then drives him off.", "predicament": "Someone you fear demands something you cannot refuse outright, so you set a condition that will leave them harmless.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 44, "story": 44, "summary": "A miser's buried gold is stolen, and a neighbour tells him a stone in the hole would serve him just as well.", "predicament": "Wealth you hoarded and never used has been taken from you, and someone points out you were no poorer before.", "moral": null}
+]

tools/story-to-pack/probe/aesop/claude/batches/s045.json

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+[
+{"chunk": 45, "story": 45, "summary": "A pig squeals when the shepherd seizes him, and tells the complaining sheep and goat that they are handled for wool and milk but he for his life.", "predicament": "Colleagues who are only ever asked for small things scold you for resisting, when what is demanded of you is everything.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 46, "story": 46, "summary": "A boy grasps so many filberts that he cannot pull his hand out of the pitcher, and is told to take half.", "predicament": "You have grabbed so much at once that you cannot get any of it out, and letting go of half feels like losing.", "moral": "Do not attempt too much at once."},
+{"chunk": 47, "story": 47, "summary": "Frogs ask Jupiter for a king, scorn the log and the eel he sends, and are given a heron who eats them.", "predicament": "Your group keeps complaining that its mild leader is too weak and demanding a stronger one from above.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 48, "story": 48, "summary": "A father who maimed the snake that killed his son offers it peace, and the snake says neither can ever forget.", "predicament": "You and someone you hurt, and who hurt you far worse, both have reason to hate, and you now offer to make peace.", "moral": "No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury."},
+{"chunk": 49, "story": 49, "summary": "A lion woken by a mouse searches his den in fury, and tells a mocking fox it is the mouse's cheek, not the mouse, he resents.", "predicament": "Someone far beneath you has taken a small liberty, and a bystander mocks you for making so much of it.", "moral": "Little liberties are great offenses."},
+{"chunk": 50, "story": 50, "summary": "A groom curries his horse all day but sells its oats, and the horse asks to be groomed less and fed more.", "predicament": "Someone responsible for you makes a great show of looking after you while quietly skimming off what you actually need.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 51, "story": 51, "summary": "A mule refuses to take a little of the struggling ass's load, the ass dies, and the mule must carry all of it and the ass's hide.", "predicament": "A partner struggling under their share asks you to take a little of it, and you could say it is not your job.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 52, "story": 52, "summary": "An ass envious of the petted lapdog bursts into the house to fawn on his master and is beaten back to the stable.", "predicament": "You work hard while a charming favourite is pampered for doing little, and you are tempted to try the favourite's tricks.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 53, "story": 53, "summary": "Oxen plot to kill the butchers, but an old ox warns that clumsier ones would replace them.", "predicament": "Your group is set on getting rid of the people who harm it, and you suspect whoever replaces them will be worse.", "moral": "Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another."},
+{"chunk": 54, "story": 54, "summary": "A shepherd boy raises false alarms of a wolf for fun, and when the wolf truly comes nobody answers his cry.", "predicament": "You have raised false alarms before to amuse yourself, and now there is a real crisis and you need everyone to believe you.", "moral": "There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth."},
+{"chunk": 55, "story": 55, "summary": "Boys pelting frogs for fun are told by one frog that their sport is death to the frogs.", "predicament": "People above you are amusing themselves at your expense, and what is a game to them is ruin to you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 56, "story": 56, "summary": "An ass who lightened his salt load by falling in a stream tries the trick with sponges and doubles his burden.", "predicament": "A shortcut that once lightened your load has been noticed, and you are tempted to try it again.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 57, "story": 57, "summary": "A biting dog made to wear a warning bell struts proudly with it until an old hound tells him it is a mark of disgrace.", "predicament": "You have been singled out with a mark you take for an honour, and an old hand tells you it is a public warning.", "moral": "Notoriety is often mistaken for fame."},
+{"chunk": 58, "story": 58, "summary": "A goatherd feeds stray wild goats better than his own to win them, and they leave, reasoning he would do the same to them.", "predicament": "Someone courting you treats you better than the people who have served them for years, and you wonder what that means for you.", "moral": "Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones."},
+{"chunk": 59, "story": 59, "summary": "A greying man courts a young and an old woman, who between them pluck out all his hair.", "predicament": "You are courting two parties who want opposite things from you, and each is quietly remaking you to suit themselves.", "moral": "Those who seek to please everybody please nobody."},
+{"chunk": 60, "story": 60, "summary": "A sick stag's many visitors each eat some of his food, so he dies of want rather than illness.", "predicament": "While you are laid low, a stream of well-wishers visits, and each helps themselves to a little of what you need.", "moral": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit."},
+{"chunk": 61, "story": 61, "summary": "A boy stung after touching a nettle gently is told by his mother to grasp it boldly next time.", "predicament": "You approached a prickly problem timidly and got hurt, and someone tells you only a bold, firm grip will work.", "moral": "Whatever you do, do with all your might."},
+{"chunk": 62, "story": 62, "summary": "An astronomer gazing at the stars falls into a well, and a neighbour asks why he cannot see what is on earth.", "predicament": "You have been so absorbed in lofty plans that you have fallen into trouble right in front of you, and must call for help.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 63, "story": 63, "summary": "Wolves persuade the sheep to send away their guard dogs for peace, and then devour the unguarded flock.", "predicament": "Your enemies offer peace if only you dismiss the people who protect you, claiming those protectors are the cause of all trouble.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 64, "story": 64, "summary": "A cat disguised as a doctor offers to treat ailing birds, who say they will stay well if he goes away.", "predicament": "Someone known to prey on people like you arrives dressed as a helper, offering to fix your troubles if you let them in.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 65, "story": 65, "summary": "A jackdaw decks himself in others' fallen feathers to be chosen king, and the birds pluck them back.", "predicament": "You are presenting yourself for a top post decked out in achievements borrowed from colleagues, who are about to see it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 66, "story": 66, "summary": "A kid on a rooftop taunts a passing wolf, who says it is the roof that mocks him.", "predicament": "You are safely out of reach of someone powerful for the moment, and it is tempting to taunt them while you can.", "moral": "Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong."},
+{"chunk": 67, "story": 67, "summary": "A doctor robs a blind old woman while treating her, and when he sues for his fee she says she still cannot see her goods.", "predicament": "Someone you hired has been quietly robbing you while doing the job, and now demands full payment under your agreement.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 68, "story": 68, "summary": "A mother frog puffs herself up to match the ox that killed her son, and is told she would burst first.", "predicament": "Someone far bigger has crushed one of yours, and you are tempted to puff yourself up to look their equal.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 69, "story": 69, "summary": "A dying farmer tells his sons treasure lies in the vineyard, and their digging brings a great harvest.", "predicament": "You want those who will take over from you to work as hard as you did, and plain advice will not move them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 70, "story": 70, "summary": "A heifer mocks a working ox for his labour and is then led off to be sacrificed while the ox is freed.", "predicament": "An idle favourite mocks you for how hard you work, not seeing why they have been kept free of work.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 71, "story": 71, "summary": "A victorious cock crows on a wall and is carried off by an eagle, leaving the beaten cock to rule.", "predicament": "You have just beaten your rival, and it is tempting to boast about it from the most exposed place you can find.", "moral": "Pride goes before destruction."},
+{"chunk": 72, "story": 72, "summary": "An old warhorse sent to work a mill laments his former glory, and the miller tells him fortune rises and falls.", "predicament": "Age has moved you from a proud post to drudgery, and you keep bemoaning what you had to whoever will listen.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 73, "story": 73, "summary": "A jealous fox leads the newly elected monkey king into a trap, then mocks him as unfit to rule.", "predicament": "You have just been raised to a high post, and a jealous colleague brings you a tempting windfall they say they kept for you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 74, "story": 74, "summary": "A soldier pampers his horse in war, drudges it in peace, and finds it cannot carry him when war returns.", "predicament": "Someone valued you highly in a crisis, worked you into the ground when it passed, and now needs you at your best again.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 75, "story": 75, "summary": "The limbs rebel against the idle-seeming belly and stop feeding it, and the whole body weakens.", "predicament": "You and your fellow workers resent a part of the organisation that seems to do nothing, and are tempted to stop supplying it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 76, "story": 76, "summary": "Maids kill the cock that wakes their mistress early, and she wakes them even earlier.", "predicament": "Your boss works you too early and too long, and you could get rid of the thing that sets the pace.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 77, "story": 77, "summary": "A vine cropped by a goat says she will provide the wine poured over him at his sacrifice.", "predicament": "Someone is stripping you bare without cause, and you know that in time you will have a hand in their downfall.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 78, "story": 78, "summary": "A monkey presents her ugly baby for the beauty prize and, laughed at, says he is the most beautiful to her.", "predicament": "You have put forward work of your own that everyone laughs at, and you are sure it is the best there is.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 79, "story": 79, "summary": "Pigeons invite a hawk to protect them from a kite, and he kills more of them in a day than the kite did in a year.", "predicament": "Threatened by one predator, your group is ready to invite a powerful protector inside who may prove far worse.", "moral": "Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease."},
+{"chunk": 80, "story": 80, "summary": "A sprat offers to reconcile warring dolphins and whales, who say they would rather be destroyed than accept him.", "predicament": "Two powerful factions are at war, and you, a nobody, offer to step in and settle their quarrel.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 81, "story": 81, "summary": "A swallow nests in the wall of a court of justice, and her young are eaten by a serpent there.", "predicament": "You trusted the one place meant to protect everyone's rights, and it is exactly there that you have been wronged.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 82, "story": 82, "summary": "An earthen pot floating downstream begs a brass pot to keep away, since any touch would break her.", "predicament": "Someone much stronger than you wants to travel alongside you, and even friendly contact could break you.", "moral": "Equals make the best friends."},
+{"chunk": 83, "story": 83, "summary": "A shepherd raises a wolf cub to steal lambs from neighbours, and it warns him to watch his own flock.", "predicament": "You have trained someone to take advantage of others for you, and they have just hinted they could do the same to you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 84, "story": 84, "summary": "A crab tells her son to walk straight, and he asks her to show him how.", "predicament": "You are correcting a junior for a fault you plainly share, and they ask you to demonstrate the right way.", "moral": "Example is more powerful than precept."},
+{"chunk": 85, "story": 85, "summary": "A father's two daughters, married to a gardener and a tile-maker, wish for rain and for sun, and he cannot back both.", "predicament": "Two people you care for equally need opposite outcomes, and whichever you support you will be working against the other.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 86, "story": 86, "summary": "A mother praises her son's first small thefts, and on his way to execution he bites her ear for not stopping him.", "predicament": "Someone in your charge has brought you a small ill-gotten gain, and you could praise it or stop it now.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 87, "story": 87, "summary": "A weary old woodcutter calls for Death, and when Death comes asks only for help lifting his load.", "predicament": "Worn out, you have loudly wished to be done with it all, and now the chance to quit is actually offered.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 88, "story": 88, "summary": "A fir scorns a useless bramble, which reminds it of the axes waiting to fell the useful.", "predicament": "Someone important sneers that you are of no use, and you know their usefulness is exactly what marks them to be cut down.", "moral": "Better poverty without care, than riches with."},
+{"chunk": 89, "story": 89, "summary": "A buyer of a black servant, thinking his colour is dirt, scrubs him incessantly and only gives him a cold.", "predicament": "You have taken someone on convinced that their nature is a fault you can scrub away, and your efforts are only hurting them.", "moral": "What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh."},
+{"chunk": 90, "story": 90, "summary": "A frog ties a mouse's foot to his own and drowns him, and a hawk carries off both.", "predicament": "A new acquaintance proposes binding your fortunes tightly together, and you would be on their ground, not yours.", "moral": "Harm hatch, harm catch."},
+{"chunk": 91, "story": 91, "summary": "A fisherman's net holds the large fish, but the small ones slip back through the meshes.", "predicament": "A sweep that catches the big players lets the small ones slip away, and you are either doing the sweeping or being swept.", "moral": null}
+]

tools/story-to-pack/probe/aesop/claude/batches/s092.json

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+{"chunk": 92, "story": 92, "summary": "A wounded wolf asks a passing sheep to fetch him water, and the sheep sees he would make her the meat as well.", "predicament": "Someone known to prey on people like you is laid up and asks you for a small favour that would bring you within reach.", "moral": "Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through."},
+{"chunk": 93, "story": 93, "summary": "An old woman sniffs an empty wine jar and praises how fine the wine must have been.", "predicament": "Only the faint trace of someone's good work is left behind, and you find yourself still admiring what it must have been.", "moral": "The memory of a good deed lives."},
+{"chunk": 94, "story": 94, "summary": "A man bitten by a dog is advised to feed the dog bread dipped in his blood, and says that would invite every dog to bite him.", "predicament": "Someone who hurt you could be soothed with a reward, and you are advised that appeasing them is the cure.", "moral": "Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you."},
+{"chunk": 95, "story": 95, "summary": "A huntsman and a fisherman swap their catches daily until a neighbour warns that habit will spoil the pleasure.", "predicament": "An exchange with a partner has pleased you both so much that you repeat it daily, and someone warns it will soon go stale.", "moral": "Abstain and enjoy."},
+{"chunk": 96, "story": 96, "summary": "A fox flatters a crow's beauty and doubts her voice, so she caws and drops her meat to him.", "predicament": "Someone who wants what you hold praises you lavishly, then hints at one doubt you would have to prove wrong by speaking up.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 97, "story": 97, "summary": "A poor widow shears her sheep herself to save the fee and cuts his flesh with the wool.", "predicament": "To save an expert's fee you are doing a skilled job yourself, and you are hurting the thing you meant to profit from.", "moral": "The least outlay is not always the greatest gain."},
+{"chunk": 98, "story": 98, "summary": "An ass dances on the roof and is beaten, protesting that everyone laughed when the monkey did it.", "predicament": "You copied a favourite's antics that everyone applauded, and are being punished for exactly what they were praised for.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 99, "story": 99, "summary": "A hunted stag hides in an ox-stall, escapes the servants' notice, and is found by the sharp-eyed master.", "predicament": "You are hiding from trouble in a place you should not be, the careless have passed you by, and the sharp-eyed boss is coming.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 100, "story": 100, "summary": "A hound complains that the housedog feasts on his catch, and the housedog tells him to blame the master who taught him so.", "predicament": "You do the hard work while a colleague enjoys its rewards, and they say the fault lies with the boss who arranged it.", "moral": "Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents."},
+{"chunk": 101, "story": 101, "summary": "A lion and a wild ass hunt together, and the lion takes all three shares by rank, partnership and threat.", "predicament": "You went into a venture with a far more powerful partner, and now they are dividing the proceeds entirely their own way.", "moral": "Might makes right."},
+{"chunk": 102, "story": 102, "summary": "A lion allies with a dolphin, and when the dolphin cannot come ashore to help him fight, calls him a traitor.", "predicament": "An impressive ally from another field swore friendship with you, and now you need help they have no means to give.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 103, "story": 103, "summary": "An eagle is mortally shot with an arrow fledged with his own feathers.", "predicament": "You are being brought down by a rival who is using the very tools, ideas or people you supplied them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 104, "story": 104, "summary": "A dying kite asks his mother to pray for him, and she asks which god he has not robbed.", "predicament": "In your hour of need you look for someone to speak up for you, and realise you have cheated everyone who could.", "moral": "We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity."},
+{"chunk": 105, "story": 105, "summary": "A lion and a boar fighting over a well see vultures waiting and make peace.", "predicament": "You and a rival are fighting over something small, and you notice others waiting to pick over whoever loses.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 106, "story": 106, "summary": "The mice agree to bell the cat, but none will volunteer to do it.", "predicament": "Everyone agrees a clever plan to deal with the danger, and the only question left is who will risk carrying it out.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 107, "story": 107, "summary": "A one-eyed doe watches the land and is shot from the sea she thought safe.", "predicament": "You have guarded carefully against the threat you expect, and turned your back entirely on the side you assume is safe.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 108, "story": 108, "summary": "Mice appoint generals who wear conspicuous plumes, and in the rout the generals cannot fit into their holes and are eaten.", "predicament": "You have been promoted and given marks of rank, and when things go wrong those marks may be exactly what trap you.", "moral": "The more honour the more danger."},
+{"chunk": 109, "story": 109, "summary": "A shepherd sells his flock to trade dates by sea, loses all in a storm, and later sneers that the calm sea wants more dates.", "predicament": "A calm opening tempts you to sell what you have and stake it all on a trade you do not know.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 110, "story": 110, "summary": "An ass sees a lion flee at a cock's crow, chases the lion himself, and is torn apart.", "predicament": "You saw someone powerful back down before another person, and are tempted to think they will back down before you too.", "moral": "False confidence often leads into danger."},
+{"chunk": 111, "story": 111, "summary": "The rivers complain the sea makes them salty, and the sea tells them to stop flowing into it.", "predicament": "People who keep choosing to join you complain that you change them, and are trying to lay the blame on you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 112, "story": 112, "summary": "A boar whets his tusks with no enemy in sight, saying there is no time to sharpen them once attacked.", "predicament": "Things are quiet with no threat in sight, and someone asks why you are spending effort preparing for trouble.", "moral": "To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace."},
+{"chunk": 113, "story": 113, "summary": "A milkmaid counts the future profits of her milk, tosses her head at imagined suitors, and spills the pail.", "predicament": "You are carrying your only real asset while already spending, in your head, everything you hope it will turn into.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 114, "story": 114, "summary": "A bee asks Jupiter for a deadly sting, and gets one that kills her if she uses it.", "predicament": "A powerful patron has promised you any favour, and you are tempted to ask for the power to punish anyone touching what is yours.", "moral": "Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost."},
+{"chunk": 115, "story": 115, "summary": "A lean wolf admires a well-fed dog until he sees the heavy collar and log, and wants none of it.", "predicament": "A well-fed insider shows you how comfortably their employer keeps them, and you notice the chain they wear for it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 116, "story": 116, "summary": "A besieged city asks how to defend itself, and the bricklayer, carpenter and currier each propose their own trade.", "predicament": "In a crisis everyone is asked for the best solution, and each expert recommends exactly what they happen to sell.", "moral": "Every man for himself."},
+{"chunk": 117, "story": 117, "summary": "An ass carrying a sacred image thinks the crowd bows to him and balks, until the driver's whip corrects him.", "predicament": "People bow as you pass, and you are tempted to believe it is for you rather than for what you happen to carry.", "moral": "They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others."},
+{"chunk": 118, "story": 118, "summary": "A storm-bound man kills his sheep, goats and then his oxen, and his dogs flee reasoning they are next.", "predicament": "In hard times your employer has sacrificed even the people who earn for them, and you wonder how long before it is you.", "moral": "He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family."},
+{"chunk": 119, "story": 119, "summary": "An old hound loses his grip on a boar and, abused by his master, asks to be praised for what he was.", "predicament": "Age has cost you the ability you were known for, and your boss is berating you for failing at it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 120, "story": 120, "summary": "A traveller says 'I' found the axe but 'we' are undone when the owner comes, and his companion holds him to 'I'.", "predicament": "A companion kept a find to themselves, and now that it has brought trouble they want you to share the blame.", "moral": "He who shares the danger ought to share the prize."},
+{"chunk": 121, "story": 121, "summary": "A dying old lion is struck by the boar and the bull, and then kicked by the ass.", "predicament": "Once powerful, you are now weak, and even the least of those you once ruled are lining up to strike at you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 122, "story": 122, "summary": "A wolf sees shepherds eating mutton and remarks on the outcry there would be if he did the same.", "predicament": "The people who condemn you for something are openly doing the very same thing themselves.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 123, "story": 123, "summary": "Travellers wait for what they think is a ship, and it turns out to be a bundle of sticks.", "predicament": "You have waited a long while for something that looked grand from far away, and it is shrinking as it comes closer.", "moral": "Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities."},
+{"chunk": 124, "story": 124, "summary": "A traveller and the ass's owner fight over who hired the ass's shadow, and the ass runs off.", "predicament": "You and a client are locked in a bitter dispute over a technicality while the thing you both needed slips away.", "moral": "In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance."},
+{"chunk": 125, "story": 125, "summary": "An overworked ass keeps asking for a new master and each is worse, ending with a tanner.", "predicament": "You are unhappy with your boss and could ask for a transfer, though you have asked before and each move was worse.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 126, "story": 126, "summary": "Mercury in disguise asks a sculptor the price of his own statue, expecting it to be highest, and is offered it free.", "predicament": "You go incognito to find out how highly people rate you, expecting to hear you are the most valued of all.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 127, "story": 127, "summary": "A woodcutter hides a fox but points to it while denying it, and the fox leaves without thanks.", "predicament": "Someone claims you owe them for protecting you, when their words protected you and their gestures quietly gave you away.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 128, "story": 128, "summary": "An uprooted oak asks the reeds how they survive the wind, and they say they bend rather than fight.", "predicament": "A force far stronger than you is sweeping through, and you could stand rigid against it or bend until it passes.", "moral": "Stoop to conquer."},
+{"chunk": 129, "story": 129, "summary": "A farmer shuts a lion in his farmyard, loses his flocks, and has to let it go.", "predicament": "You have a chance to trap someone far more dangerous than you, but you would be locked in with them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 130, "story": 130, "summary": "A lion takes a stolen lamb from a wolf, who protests the injustice, and the lion jeers at his claim.", "predicament": "Someone stronger has taken from you something you had taken dishonestly yourself, and you want to protest.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 131, "story": 131, "summary": "A birdcatcher spares his decoy partridge and his cock after each pleads usefulness, but still must feed his guest.", "predicament": "Your boss needs to cut someone and you plead how useful you are, but the need is pressing and must be met somehow.", "moral": "Necessity knows no law."},
+{"chunk": 132, "story": 132, "summary": "A dove saves a drowning ant with a leaf, and the ant later stings a birdcatcher to save the dove.", "predicament": "Someone you once helped for nothing sees a threat to you coming that you cannot see, and has a chance to repay you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 133, "story": 133, "summary": "Despairing hares rush to drown themselves, see frogs flee from them, and take heart.", "predicament": "You feel so weak and harried that you are ready to give up entirely, and then notice others who fear even you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 134, "story": 134, "summary": "A monkey copies the fishermen's netting, gets tangled and drowns.", "predicament": "You have watched experts do a job and are about to try it yourself with their tools, having never learned how.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 135, "story": 135, "summary": "A swan seized by mistake for the goose sings and is known and spared.", "predicament": "In the dark you have been mistaken for someone marked to be cut, and only showing your one real talent will set it right.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 136, "story": 136, "summary": "A doe escaping hunters takes refuge in a lion's cave and is killed there.", "predicament": "Fleeing one danger, you are about to take shelter with someone who may be far more dangerous than what chases you.", "moral": "In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another."},
+{"chunk": 137, "story": 137, "summary": "A fisherman refuses to release a small fish that promises to be worth more when grown.", "predicament": "Someone you have caught asks you to let them go now, promising you a much bigger return later.", "moral": null}
+]

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+{"chunk": 138, "story": 138, "summary": "A timid hunter asks a woodman for the lion's tracks and, offered the lion itself, says he only wanted the tracks.", "predicament": "You have talked boldly about tackling a formidable opponent, and someone offers to take you to face them right now.", "moral": "The hero is brave in deeds as well as words."},
+{"chunk": 139, "story": 139, "summary": "A fox gorges on food left in a hollow tree and is too swollen to get out.", "predicament": "You helped yourself so freely to what was lying unguarded that you can no longer get out of the position it put you in.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 140, "story": 140, "summary": "Two frogs seeking a new home find a deep well, and one asks how they would get out if it dried up.", "predicament": "You and a partner must move, and an attractive opening has appeared that would be very hard to leave if it failed.", "moral": "Do nothing without a regard to the consequences."},
+{"chunk": 141, "story": 141, "summary": "A flaring lamp boasts it outshines the sun and is blown out by a gust.", "predicament": "You are shining brightly just now and are tempted to claim you outshine the people who truly lead.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 142, "story": 142, "summary": "A camel-driver asks his camel whether it would rather go uphill or down, and the camel asks whether the level road is closed.", "predicament": "Your boss offers you a choice between two hard assignments, as if the easy option you both know exists were not there.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 143, "story": 143, "summary": "A miller and his son change how they travel with their ass at every passer-by's criticism until they lose the ass in the river.", "predicament": "Every passer-by criticises how you are doing the job, and each time you change it to please them, a new critic appears.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 144, "story": 144, "summary": "A cat pretends to be dead on a peg to lure the mice, and one says it will not come near her even if she turns into a sack.", "predicament": "Someone who has already done you harm now appears harmless, even lifeless, and is plainly waiting for you to come out.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 145, "story": 145, "summary": "A mouse bites a bull, hides in its hole, and bites him again while he sleeps.", "predicament": "Someone powerful is furious with you but cannot reach you where you are safe, and you could sting them again.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 146, "story": 146, "summary": "A dog invited by a friend to his master's feast is thrown out by the cook and pretends he was too drunk to remember.", "predicament": "An insider invited you to help yourself at their employer's expense, and you were thrown out and must explain it to your peers.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 147, "story": 147, "summary": "Thieves steal a cock who pleads he wakes men to work, and they say that is why he must die.", "predicament": "You plead your usefulness to people you have fallen among, not seeing that your usefulness is exactly what they cannot stand.", "moral": "The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions."},
+{"chunk": 148, "story": 148, "summary": "Trained monkeys dance like courtiers until someone throws nuts and they brawl for them.", "predicament": "Your team has learned to perform with polish, and a rival is about to toss something in front of them to expose them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 149, "story": 149, "summary": "A farmer takes revenge on a fox by setting its tail alight, and it runs through his own wheat.", "predicament": "You finally have the person who has been robbing you at your mercy, and your revenge could easily burn your own harvest.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 150, "story": 150, "summary": "Fortune wakes a traveller asleep on a well's brink, lest she be blamed for his fall.", "predicament": "You are careless in a dangerous spot, and if you come to grief you will blame bad luck rather than yourself.", "moral": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate."},
+{"chunk": 151, "story": 151, "summary": "A seagull bursts its gullet on too large a fish, and a kite says a bird of the air should not feed from the sea.", "predicament": "You have taken on far more than you can manage in a field that is not yours, and it is tearing you apart.", "moral": "Every man should be content to mind his own business."},
+{"chunk": 152, "story": 152, "summary": "A lion and a bear fight over a kid until both are exhausted, and a fox runs off with it.", "predicament": "You and a powerful rival are exhausting each other over one prize, while someone else circles waiting to walk off with it.", "moral": "It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit."},
+{"chunk": 153, "story": 153, "summary": "A philosopher decrying Providence for drowning the innocent with the guilty tramples an anthill for one sting.", "predicament": "You are loudly condemning those above for punishing many for one person's fault, and you have just done the same to those below.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 154, "story": 154, "summary": "A peasant frees an eagle, which later snatches his bundle to lure him from under a wall that then falls.", "predicament": "Someone you once freed from a trap suddenly snatches something of yours, and you are angry without knowing why they did it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 155, "story": 155, "summary": "A leopard and a fox dispute their beauty, and the fox says his is in the mind.", "predicament": "A colleague shows off their visible credentials one by one to prove they are the better, and you have only your wits.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 156, "story": 156, "summary": "A lion leaves a sleeping hare to chase a hart, loses the hart, and returns to find the hare gone.", "predicament": "You have an easy win within reach, and a bigger, faster prize has just run past that you could chase instead.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 157, "story": 157, "summary": "A poor carpenter smashes the idol that never helped him, and gold pours out of its head.", "predicament": "You have courted a patron respectfully for years with nothing to show, and anger tempts you to smash the relationship.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 158, "story": 158, "summary": "A lion eats the ass who divided their spoil equally, and the fox, having learned, leaves himself a morsel.", "predicament": "A powerful partner asks you to divide the spoils, and you have just seen what happened to the last one who divided them fairly.", "moral": "Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others."},
+{"chunk": 159, "story": 159, "summary": "A bull hiding from a lion in a cave is butted by a goat, and says he will answer once the lion is gone.", "predicament": "While you are sheltering from a bigger threat, someone lesser takes the chance to attack you, knowing you cannot answer yet.", "moral": "It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress."},
+{"chunk": 160, "story": 160, "summary": "A bald knight's wig blows off during a hunt, and he joins the laughter with a joke.", "predicament": "Something you were hiding about yourself has just been exposed in front of your companions, and everyone is laughing.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 161, "story": 161, "summary": "The oaks complain they are always felled, and Jupiter says it is because they are so useful.", "predicament": "You complain that you are always picked for the hardest jobs, and are told it is because you are so good at them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 162, "story": 162, "summary": "A monkey mother smothers her favourite twin with love while the neglected one thrives.", "predicament": "You lavish all your care on one favourite protege and neglect another, and your attention may be what harms the favourite.", "moral": "The best intentions will not always ensure success."},
+{"chunk": 163, "story": 163, "summary": "A hound gives up chasing a hare and, mocked, says he ran for a dinner but the hare for his life.", "predicament": "Someone mocks you for losing to a weaker rival, but they were fighting for everything and you only for a little.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 164, "story": 164, "summary": "A shepherd is about to shut a wolf in the fold, and his dog asks how the sheep can then be safe.", "predicament": "Your boss is about to bring a known predator into the team, and you are the one placed to say so.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 165, "story": 165, "summary": "An oak split by wedges cut from its own branches grieves more at them than at the axe.", "predicament": "You are being broken apart by people who came from your own side, and it hurts more than any outside attack.", "moral": "Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear."},
+{"chunk": 166, "story": 166, "summary": "A snake tormented by a wasp puts its head under a wagon wheel so they die together.", "predicament": "Someone is tormenting you without pause and you cannot shake them, and you could take them down with you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 167, "story": 167, "summary": "A peacock mocks a plain crane's plumage, and the crane says he flies to the heavens while the peacock walks the dunghill.", "predicament": "A showy colleague mocks your plain appearance in front of others, and you could answer with what you can actually do.", "moral": "Fine feathers don’t make fine birds."},
+{"chunk": 168, "story": 168, "summary": "A couple kill their hen that lays golden eggs to get the gold inside and find nothing.", "predicament": "Something steadily brings you a small, sure return, and you are tempted to break it open to get everything at once.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 169, "story": 169, "summary": "An ass who falls in a pond groans, and the frogs ask what he would do if he lived there always.", "predicament": "You are making a great fuss about a small setback in front of people who live with far worse every day.", "moral": "Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes."},
+{"chunk": 170, "story": 170, "summary": "A crow jealous of the raven's standing as an omen caws at travellers, who dismiss her cry.", "predicament": "Envying a colleague whose word carries weight, you are tempted to speak up as if yours carried the same.", "moral": "Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous."},
+{"chunk": 171, "story": 171, "summary": "The trees give a man a young ash for his axe handle, and he fells the great trees with it.", "predicament": "Someone asks your group to give up just one small, junior member, and that concession is what they need to cut down the rest.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 172, "story": 172, "summary": "Wolves urge the sheepdogs to betray the flock and live as brothers, and then tear the dogs apart.", "predicament": "Rivals flatter you as one of their own and urge you to hand over what you guard and share the spoils with them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 173, "story": 173, "summary": "A lioness mourns her cub killed by a bull, and a hunter reminds her how many she has made mourn.", "predicament": "You are loudly grieving a loss, and someone reminds you how many people have suffered the same at your hands.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 174, "story": 174, "summary": "A lion wounded by a bowman's arrow flees, saying he dare not face the man if that is his messenger.", "predicament": "An opponent's first warning shot has already hurt you badly, and an adviser urges you not to give up at the first blow.", "moral": "Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance."},
+{"chunk": 175, "story": 175, "summary": "Men first flee the huge camel, then, finding it meek, bridle it and let a child drive it.", "predicament": "People who once feared you have noticed you never push back, and are growing bolder by the day.", "moral": "Use serves to overcome dread."},
+{"chunk": 176, "story": 176, "summary": "A crab that moved inland to feed is eaten by a fox and blames himself for leaving the sea.", "predicament": "You left the field you are made for to chase better prospects elsewhere, and now you are exposed and out of your depth.", "moral": "Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness."},
+{"chunk": 177, "story": 177, "summary": "An ass refuses to flee the enemy with his master, since any master will load him the same.", "predicament": "Your boss urges you to fight off a takeover, and you suspect any new owner would work you exactly the same.", "moral": "In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master."},
+{"chunk": 178, "story": 178, "summary": "A wounded fox refuses to have the sated flies driven off, lest hungrier ones replace them.", "predicament": "Someone offers to rid you of the people draining you, but those ones are already well fed and hungrier ones would follow.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 179, "story": 179, "summary": "A woman doubles her hen's feed to get two eggs a day, and it grows fat and stops laying.", "predicament": "A reliable source gives you a steady return, and you are thinking of pushing extra into it to double what it produces.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 180, "story": 180, "summary": "Kites that could once sing try to neigh like horses and lose their song.", "predicament": "You are so taken with a colleague's style that you are trying to copy it, and your own gift is starting to fade.", "moral": "The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings."},
+{"chunk": 181, "story": 181, "summary": "A hound alternately bites and fawns on a hare, who asks him to show his true colours.", "predicament": "Someone alternately attacks you and flatters you, and you cannot tell whether to treat them as friend or enemy.", "moral": "No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him."},
+{"chunk": 182, "story": 182, "summary": "Hares at war with eagles ask the foxes for help, who decline knowing both sides.", "predicament": "Someone weak who has picked a fight with the powerful asks you to join their side.", "moral": "Count the cost before you commit yourselves."},
+{"chunk": 183, "story": 183, "summary": "A calf offers to show a bull the way through a narrow passage, and the bull says he knew it before the calf was born.", "predicament": "A newcomer offers to show you how to do something you have been doing since before they arrived.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 184, "story": 184, "summary": "A stag asks a sheep for a loan with the wolf as surety, and the sheep declines, doubting she could ever collect.", "predicament": "Someone asks you for a loan and offers as guarantor another person well known for taking what they want and vanishing.", "moral": "Two blacks do not make one white."}
+]

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+{"chunk": 186, "story": 186, "summary": "A huge wolf nicknamed 'Lion' leaves the wolves to live among lions, and a fox mocks his conceit.", "predicament": "Your peers jokingly call you the equal of those at the top, and you are tempted to leave them and move among the top.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 187, "story": 187, "summary": "An idle, overfed mule boasts he is a racer's son, and after a long hard journey decides his father was an ass.", "predicament": "After an easy spell you have been boasting of your pedigree and speed, and tomorrow brings a long, hard assignment.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 188, "story": 188, "summary": "A fortune-teller runs home on hearing his house is being robbed, and a neighbour asks why he did not foresee it.", "predicament": "You make your living advising others on what is coming, and a disaster has just struck you that you failed to foresee.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 189, "story": 189, "summary": "A frog refuses a friend's invitation to leave his exposed gully for a safe pond and is crushed by a wagon.", "predicament": "A friend urges you to leave your familiar but exposed position for a safer one, and you cannot bring yourself to move.", "moral": "A willful man will have his way to his own hurt."},
+{"chunk": 190, "story": 190, "summary": "A countryman frees an eagle from a serpent, and the eagle later knocks away the drink the serpent poisoned.", "predicament": "You stepped in to rescue someone from a dangerous enemy, and that enemy has quietly set a trap for you in return.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 191, "story": 191, "summary": "A thirsty crow raises the water in a pitcher by dropping in stones one by one.", "predicament": "What you urgently need is just out of reach, and none of the obvious approaches has worked.", "moral": "Necessity is the mother of invention."},
+{"chunk": 192, "story": 192, "summary": "A thief frightens an innkeeper with a tale that he turns into a wolf, and makes off with his coat.", "predicament": "A stranger tells you an alarming story and urges you to act at once, and the action would leave your goods in their hands.", "moral": "Every tale is not to be believed."},
+{"chunk": 193, "story": 193, "summary": "A hart hidden under a vine eats its leaves once the hunters pass, and is spotted and shot.", "predicament": "Someone sheltered you when you were in danger, and now that the danger seems past you are tempted to help yourself to their things.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 194, "story": 194, "summary": "A gnat stings a lion into tearing his own face, then is caught and eaten by a spider.", "predicament": "You have just beaten a powerful opponent and are celebrating loudly, not watching for small, patient dangers.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 195, "story": 195, "summary": "A fox that cannot reach the grapes walks away saying they are sour.", "predicament": "You tried everything to get something you wanted and failed, and people are watching to see how you take it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 196, "story": 196, "summary": "A roadside walnut tree is beaten with sticks by passers-by who want its nuts.", "predicament": "The more you give, the more roughly people treat you to get more, and those you feed are the ones doing the damage.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 197, "story": 197, "summary": "A kid caught by a wolf asks him to pipe a last dance, and the music brings hounds that chase off the wolf.", "predicament": "Someone who has you cornered is enjoying their power, and you could ask for one small favour that might draw help.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 198, "story": 198, "summary": "A dolphin carrying a monkey from a wreck drowns him when he lies about his noble birth and 'knowing' the Piraeus.", "predicament": "Someone is helping you because they think you are one of their own, and asks questions you can only answer by lying.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 199, "story": 199, "summary": "A horse accepts a man's bit and saddle to get revenge on a stag, and is enslaved for good.", "predicament": "To get back at a newcomer who shares your territory, someone powerful offers help if you accept their harness.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 200, "story": 200, "summary": "A jackdaw painted white lives among doves until he chatters, and is then rejected by both doves and jackdaws.", "predicament": "You have disguised yourself as one of a better-fed group to share their benefits, and must keep silent to pass.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 201, "story": 201, "summary": "A monkey claims a cemetery's monuments honour his ancestors, and a fox notes no ancestor can contradict him.", "predicament": "You are inflating your background to a companion, and they have noticed that nobody who could contradict you is around.", "moral": "A false tale often betrays itself."},
+{"chunk": 202, "story": 202, "summary": "A man sends his disliked wife to her father's house, and her report of the herdsmen's looks confirms her effect on everyone.", "predicament": "Someone you are responsible for is disliked by everyone around them, and you want to learn whether it is them or the place.", "moral": "Straws show how the wind blows."},
+{"chunk": 203, "story": 203, "summary": "A horse, ox and dog repay a man's shelter by giving the stages of his life their own tempers.", "predicament": "People you took in during hard times want to repay you by shaping you in their own likeness.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 204, "story": 204, "summary": "A thief throws meat to a housedog, who says the sudden kindness only makes him more watchful.", "predicament": "A stranger showers you with sudden favours just as you are guarding something for your employer.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 205, "story": 205, "summary": "An ape king rewards a liar's flattery and has his court maul a truthful traveller.", "predicament": "A vain leader asks your honest opinion of them and their court, and has just richly rewarded someone who flattered them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 206, "story": 206, "summary": "A fox terrified at first sight of a lion grows bolder each meeting until he chats with him.", "predicament": "You were terrified the first time you met someone very powerful, and each meeting since, you have been growing bolder.", "moral": "Acquaintance softens prejudices."},
+{"chunk": 207, "story": 207, "summary": "An old weasel rolls in flour to look like food, and an old mouse sees through it.", "predicament": "Something tempting lies in a dark corner, and you notice that everyone who went for it has vanished.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 208, "story": 208, "summary": "A drowning boy asks a traveller who scolds him to help first and scold afterwards.", "predicament": "You are in serious trouble and the person who could help is busy lecturing you on how you got there.", "moral": "Counsel without help is useless."},
+{"chunk": 209, "story": 209, "summary": "A peacock complains to Juno that he cannot sing, and she tells him each has his own gift.", "predicament": "You are admired for one gift but resent being laughed at for lacking another that a colleague has.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 210, "story": 210, "summary": "A wolf follows a flock harmlessly for so long that the shepherd leaves him in charge, and he kills the flock.", "predicament": "Someone you once guarded against has behaved so well for so long that you are about to leave them in charge.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 211, "story": 211, "summary": "Hares argue that all beasts should be equal, and lions say the words lack claws and teeth.", "predicament": "You are arguing before the powerful that everyone should be treated as equals, and you have nothing to back it with.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 212, "story": 212, "summary": "A man selling an image of Mercury claims it brings wealth, and says he sells because its gifts come too slowly.", "predicament": "You are selling something by promising it makes its owner rich, and a customer asks why you would part with it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 213, "story": 213, "summary": "A hawk refuses a nightingale's plea to let him go for larger birds not yet in sight.", "predicament": "You have someone in your power who argues you should let them go and chase a bigger target instead.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 214, "story": 214, "summary": "A lark stays put while the farmer relies on friends to reap, and moves when he says he will reap himself.", "predicament": "Your boss keeps announcing a shake-up, and you must judge whether they mean it this time or will leave it to others again.", "moral": "Self-help is the best help."},
+{"chunk": 215, "story": 215, "summary": "A fox flatters a cock in a tree, who invites him to wake the 'porter' below, and the dog kills the fox.", "predicament": "A stranger known to prey on people like you is praising you warmly and asking to be let in to meet you properly.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 216, "story": 216, "summary": "Cranes fly off at a birdcatcher's approach, while the heavier geese are caught.", "predicament": "Danger is coming for everyone in your position, and the nimble are already slipping away while you are weighed down.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 217, "story": 217, "summary": "An ass feigns a thorn in his hoof, and when the wolf goes to pull it he kicks his teeth in.", "predicament": "Someone stronger has you cornered, and you could ask them for a small service that would put them off their guard.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 218, "story": 218, "summary": "A goat envious of the ass advises him to feign illness, and the goat's lungs are then prescribed to heal him.", "predicament": "Out of envy you are urging a colleague to fake an illness to escape work, and the fallout could land on you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 219, "story": 219, "summary": "A lion invites a bull to dine on a sheep, and the bull sees only spits and cauldrons big enough for a bull.", "predicament": "Someone who would gain by your downfall invites you to share a feast, and the preparations look suspiciously large.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 220, "story": 220, "summary": "A fox finds a lifelike mask in an actor's house and says it is beautiful but has no brains.", "predicament": "An impressive-looking candidate is presented to you, and you notice there seems to be nothing behind the face.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 221, "story": 221, "summary": "An owl kept awake by a grasshopper flatters her voice and invites her to drink, then kills her.", "predicament": "Someone you have been annoying suddenly praises you and invites you in for a treat, after asking you nicely to stop.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 222, "story": 222, "summary": "A fowler staring up at a thrush treads on a viper and is fatally stung.", "predicament": "You are so intent on a target you are stalking that you have stopped watching where you are putting your own feet.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 223, "story": 223, "summary": "A proud horse threatens a laden ass, then broken-winded is put to a dungcart and mocked by the ass.", "predicament": "Someone high in favour sneers at you and your heavy load, and you could answer back or hold your peace.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 224, "story": 224, "summary": "A lion afraid of three bulls together separates them with sly talk and eats them one by one.", "predicament": "Someone who fears you and your colleagues together is quietly talking each of you into going your own way.", "moral": "Union is strength."},
+{"chunk": 225, "story": 225, "summary": "A wolf urges a goat on a cliff to come down to the tender grass, and she knows he wants to eat her.", "predicament": "You hold a secure position, and someone who would profit from your fall urges you down to where the rewards are richer.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 226, "story": 226, "summary": "A fly on the axle threatens to sting the mule, who says he heeds only the driver.", "predicament": "Someone with no authority over you is loudly telling you to hurry up and threatening you if you do not.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 227, "story": 227, "summary": "Fishermen rejoice at heavy nets that turn out full of stones, and an old man says sorrow is twin to joy.", "predicament": "You celebrated early over what looked like a huge haul, and it has turned out to be mostly worthless.", "moral": null}
+]

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+{"chunk": 228, "story": 228, "summary": "A country mouse visits his friend's rich town house, is chased from every meal, and goes back to his safe plain fare.", "predicament": "A well-off friend urges you to leave your plain, safe post for their lavish one, where every meal comes with a fright.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 229, "story": 229, "summary": "An ape judging a wolf's theft charge against a fox rules that the wolf lost nothing and the fox stole anyway.", "predicament": "You must settle a dispute between two people with bad reputations, and you believe neither of their accounts.", "moral": "The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit."},
+{"chunk": 230, "story": 230, "summary": "Wasps and partridges promise a farmer service for water, and he says his oxen already do it without promises.", "predicament": "Newcomers promise you great service in return for a favour now, while your steady workers already do it without promising.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 231, "story": 231, "summary": "A father tells his vain son and plain, spiteful daughter both to look in the mirror daily, to mind their conduct.", "predicament": "Two people in your care are at odds, one vain of their gifts and the other spiteful for lacking them, and both appeal.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 232, "story": 232, "summary": "Dogs tear at a lion's skin, and a fox says they would learn a lion's claws if it were alive.", "predicament": "Someone who once ruled over you is gone for good, and everyone is now bravely tearing into their reputation.", "moral": "It is easy to kick a man that is down."},
+{"chunk": 233, "story": 233, "summary": "A blind man feeling a wolf cub cannot say if it is fox or wolf, but knows it must not go in the sheepfold.", "predicament": "You are asked to vouch for a young newcomer whose record is unclear, but whose instincts are plainly those of a predator.", "moral": "Evil tendencies are shown in early life."},
+{"chunk": 234, "story": 234, "summary": "A failed cobbler poses as a doctor with a cure-all, and confesses when the governor tests him with 'poison'.", "predicament": "Your reputation as an expert was built on noise rather than skill, and someone powerful is about to test it on you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 235, "story": 235, "summary": "A wolf says he left a field of oats untouched for the horse, who says he would not if wolves ate oats.", "predicament": "Someone with a bad reputation makes a show of having saved something for you that they could never have used themselves.", "moral": "Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it."},
+{"chunk": 236, "story": 236, "summary": "Two enemies on a sinking ship sit at opposite ends, and one is content if his enemy's end sinks first.", "predicament": "You and a bitter enemy are going down together, and you care more about seeing them fall first than about saving yourself.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 237, "story": 237, "summary": "A partridge pecked by gamecocks thinks it is because he is a stranger, until he sees them fight each other.", "predicament": "You are new and the old hands keep attacking you, and you assume it is because you are an outsider.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 238, "story": 238, "summary": "A fox reviles a caged lion, who says it is his mischance, not the fox, that insults him.", "predicament": "Someone powerful is trapped by circumstances for now, and it is tempting to insult them while they cannot answer.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 239, "story": 239, "summary": "A frog proclaims himself a physician, and a fox asks why he cannot cure his own gait and skin.", "predicament": "Someone offers to fix everyone else's problems, while their own obvious failings are there for all to see.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 240, "story": 240, "summary": "A wolf accuses the absent fox to the sick lion, and the fox prescribes the wolf's warm skin as the cure.", "predicament": "A rival is denouncing you to the boss just as you walk in, and you could turn the boss's anger back on them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 241, "story": 241, "summary": "A dog curled against winter cold plans a house, but stretched out in summer thinks one too big a job.", "predicament": "In hard times you resolved to build yourself some security, and now that times are easy it seems too big a job.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 242, "story": 242, "summary": "The north wind blows in vain to strip a traveller's cloak, and the sun's warmth makes him take it off.", "predicament": "You need someone to give something up, and the harder you push the tighter they cling to it.", "moral": "Persuasion is better than Force."},
+{"chunk": 243, "story": 243, "summary": "A crow breaks his vow to Apollo after being freed, and when caught again Mercury will not believe his new vow.", "predicament": "You broke your promise to the last person who got you out of trouble, and now you need a new patron to trust you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 244, "story": 244, "summary": "A fox serves a crane soup in a flat dish, and the crane repays him with a narrow-necked jar.", "predicament": "Someone humiliated you with a show of hospitality you could not use, and now it is your turn to host them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 245, "story": 245, "summary": "A wolf seeing his long evening shadow thinks he should be king, and a lion kills him.", "predicament": "Things are going so well that you feel bigger than the people above you and start to think you deserve their place.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 246, "story": 246, "summary": "A bat fights for whichever side, birds or beasts, is winning, and after peace both condemn him.", "predicament": "Two factions are at war, and you could keep switching to whichever side is winning at the moment.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 247, "story": 247, "summary": "A spendthrift sells his last cloak on seeing an early swallow, and the frost returns.", "predicament": "Having run through almost everything, you see an early sign of good times and are tempted to sell your last safeguard.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 248, "story": 248, "summary": "A captured trumpeter pleads he carried no weapon, and his captors say his trumpet roused all the others.", "predicament": "You are caught on the losing side and plead that you never did harm yourself, only urged others on.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 249, "story": 249, "summary": "The birds scorn the owl's warnings about acorns, flax and archers until they come true.", "predicament": "You warned your group early about dangers others could not yet see, and they called you mad.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 250, "story": 250, "summary": "Driven out by the ills, the goods ask Jupiter for protection, and he sends them to men one at a time.", "predicament": "Troubles keep arriving together while good things come one at a time, and you must learn to spot the good when it comes.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 251, "story": 251, "summary": "An ass in a lion's skin frightens the foolish beasts until a fox hears him bray.", "predicament": "You have borrowed the trappings of real authority and are enjoying frightening people, and now you meet someone who listens.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 252, "story": 252, "summary": "A sparrow mocks a hare seized by an eagle and is himself taken by a hawk.", "predicament": "A colleague has just been brought down, and it is tempting to mock them for failing, as if it could not happen to you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 253, "story": 253, "summary": "A flea asks why the ox slaves for men, and the ox says he is loved and patted, while a pat means the flea's death.", "predicament": "A freeloader asks why you work so hard for your employer when they themselves take freely and give nothing.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 254, "story": 254, "summary": "A buyer returns an ass on trial because it at once joined the laziest ass in the yard.", "predicament": "You are new and on trial, and the first thing you do is choose whom to fall in with.", "moral": "A man is known by the company he keeps."},
+{"chunk": 255, "story": 255, "summary": "A caged dove boasts of her many young, and a crow says that only means more of them in prison.", "predicament": "You boast of how many people you have brought into the organisation, when all of them are stuck there with you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 256, "story": 256, "summary": "A satyr breaks his friendship with a man who blows on his hands to warm them and on his food to cool it.", "predicament": "Your new ally has watched you argue both sides of the same question within a day, and is doubting you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 257, "story": 257, "summary": "Momus, made judge of the gods' works, envies and faults all three, and is expelled.", "predicament": "You have been asked to judge between colleagues' work, and your envy is tempting you to find fault with all of it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 258, "story": 258, "summary": "A jackdaw envious of an eagle tries to carry off a ram, gets caught in the fleece, and is clipped and given to children.", "predicament": "You watched a star performer pull off a feat and are about to try an even bigger one yourself, without their strength.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 259, "story": 259, "summary": "An eagle steals her neighbour fox's cub, and later her own young burn in a nest fired by a stolen cinder.", "predicament": "A powerful neighbour who swore friendship has taken something precious from you, and you cannot reach them to answer it.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 260, "story": 260, "summary": "Every man carries a bag of his neighbours' faults in front and a bigger bag of his own behind.", "predicament": "You see a colleague's faults very clearly and are ready to point them out, without looking at your own.", "moral": "Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings."},
+{"chunk": 261, "story": 261, "summary": "A bitch granted a place to whelp later uses her grown pups to bar the shepherd from it.", "predicament": "Someone you let use your space for a while has built up a following and now claims it as their own.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 262, "story": 262, "summary": "A stag admires his antlers and despises his thin legs, which save him until the antlers catch in a thicket.", "predicament": "You prize your showy strengths and are ashamed of your plain ones, and trouble is coming that will test which matters.", "moral": "What is most truly valuable is often underrated."},
+{"chunk": 263, "story": 263, "summary": "A lark born before the earth, with nowhere to bury her father, buries him in her own head.", "predicament": "You owe a duty of respect to someone who has gone, and there is no proper place to pay it but within yourself.", "moral": "Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents."},
+{"chunk": 264, "story": 264, "summary": "A gnat asks a bull if he should leave, and the bull says he never noticed him come.", "predicament": "You are making a show of whether to leave, sure your departure will be felt, and you may not have been noticed at all.", "moral": "Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors."},
+{"chunk": 265, "story": 265, "summary": "A camel envious of the monkey's applauded dance tries to dance and is driven out.", "predicament": "A colleague's performance has just been loudly applauded, and you are tempted to get up and try to outdo them.", "moral": "It is absurd to ape our betters."},
+{"chunk": 266, "story": 266, "summary": "Hungry dogs try to drink a river dry to reach hides in it and burst.", "predicament": "Your group has agreed on a plan to reach something it wants that would require doing the impossible.", "moral": "Attempt not impossibilities."},
+{"chunk": 267, "story": 267, "summary": "A hungry jackdaw waits on a fig tree for out-of-season figs to ripen.", "predicament": "You are waiting, hungry, for a promise that is out of season to come good, and someone tells you it never will.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 268, "story": 268, "summary": "An honest woodman is given gold and silver axes, and a neighbour who lies to get the same loses his own axe.", "predicament": "A colleague was rewarded for honesty in a lucky accident, and you could stage the same accident and claim the reward.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 269, "story": 269, "summary": "A peasant ignores the pleas of birds to spare his barren tree, but spares it on finding honey inside.", "predicament": "You are about to cut something that has not paid its way, and those who depend on it beg you to spare it.", "moral": "Self-interest alone moves some men."},
+{"chunk": 270, "story": 270, "summary": "A soldier who fled a robber returns boasting after his comrade has killed him, and is rebuked.", "predicament": "You ran when your partner was in danger, and now that it is over you are tempted to boast of your courage.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 271, "story": 271, "summary": "A shepherd shakes down acorns onto his cloak, and the sheep eating them tear it.", "predicament": "The people you work to provide for have carelessly damaged something of yours while taking what you gave them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 272, "story": 272, "summary": "The gods choose fruitless trees so as not to seem covetous, and Minerva prefers the olive for its fruit.", "predicament": "Your peers choose honours that look disinterested, and you would rather be known for work that is plainly useful.", "moral": null}
+]

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+{"chunk": 273, "story": 273, "summary": "A wrestler bitten by a flea calls on Hercules, and wonders what help to expect against greater foes if none comes for a flea.", "predicament": "You keep calling on your powerful backer over every small irritation, and wonder whether they will come when it truly matters.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 274, "story": 274, "summary": "A fox who finds prey for a lion grows jealous of the lion's share, hunts alone, and is caught.", "predicament": "You do the scouting while a stronger partner takes the biggest share, and you are tempted to go it alone.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 275, "story": 275, "summary": "A traveller meets Truth alone in the desert, who says she left the city because falsehood is now with everyone.", "predicament": "Everyone around you now lies as a matter of course, and speaking plainly has left you entirely on your own.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 276, "story": 276, "summary": "A murderer fleeing his victim's kin climbs from a lion into a serpent's tree and jumps into a crocodile's river.", "predicament": "Pursued for a real wrong you did, you find every place you run to is more dangerous than the last.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 277, "story": 277, "summary": "An eagle proposes an alliance, and the lion asks for a surety since the eagle could fly off whenever he likes.", "predicament": "Someone proposes a partnership who could walk away from it at any moment, while you could not.", "moral": "Try before you trust."},
+{"chunk": 278, "story": 278, "summary": "An ass bolts for a precipice, and his owner, unable to hold him by the tail, lets go.", "predicament": "Someone you are responsible for is determined to throw themselves at a ruinous course, and holding them back is hurting you both.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 279, "story": 279, "summary": "A thrush lingers on a myrtle for its berries and is caught by a fowler.", "predicament": "You have been lingering in one pleasant spot because it is so rewarding, and someone has noticed exactly where to find you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 280, "story": 280, "summary": "A wolf waits all day at a cottage door after hearing a mother threaten to throw her child out to him.", "predicament": "Someone made an angry threat in your hearing that seemed to promise you a windfall, and you are waiting for them to follow through.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 281, "story": 281, "summary": "A hen hatches viper eggs, and a swallow warns they will harm everyone, starting with her.", "predicament": "You are carefully nurturing a group of newcomers who, once grown, are likely to turn on everyone, starting with you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 282, "story": 282, "summary": "An amaranth envies the rose, who replies that her beauty is brief while the amaranth never fades.", "predicament": "You envy a colleague's dazzling reputation, and they tell you it will not last while your quieter one will.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 283, "story": 283, "summary": "Travellers resting in a plane tree's shade call it useless, and the tree rebukes them.", "predicament": "People who depend on you every day are, in your hearing, calling you useless because you do not produce anything showy.", "moral": "Some men underrate their best blessings."},
+{"chunk": 284, "story": 284, "summary": "A horse refuses the ass a little feed now but promises a sackful later, and the ass does not believe it.", "predicament": "Someone refuses you a small favour now but promises a much larger one later, and you are asked to be grateful.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 285, "story": 285, "summary": "A crow rides a sheep's back and says she bullies the weak and flatters the strong.", "predicament": "A colleague bullies you freely, and openly admits they would never try it with someone who could bite back.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 286, "story": 286, "summary": "A slipping fox grabs a bramble for help, is torn by it, and is told he should have known its nature.", "predicament": "In a crisis you grabbed for help from someone known to take advantage of everyone, and they have hurt you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 287, "story": 287, "summary": "An ass envies the pampered warhorse until the horse is killed in battle.", "predicament": "You envy how well a favoured colleague is kept, not asking what they are being kept for.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 288, "story": 288, "summary": "A lion ashamed of fearing a cock finds an elephant terrified of a gnat, and is consoled.", "predicament": "You are strong in every way but one small fear, and it shames you so much that you are ready to give up.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 289, "story": 289, "summary": "A dog used to eggs swallows an oyster whole and suffers for thinking everything round is an egg.", "predicament": "Something new looks just like what you are used to handling, and you are about to take it on without a second look.", "moral": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger."},
+{"chunk": 290, "story": 290, "summary": "Robbers wound the proud mule carrying treasure and ignore the one carrying grain.", "predicament": "You are proud to carry the most valuable load and make sure everyone hears it, while a colleague carries theirs quietly.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 291, "story": 291, "summary": "A lamb fleeing a wolf into a temple says being sacrificed there is better than being eaten by him.", "predicament": "Someone chasing you warns that the refuge you are running to will be no kinder to you than they would be.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 292, "story": 292, "summary": "A partridge offers to lure other partridges if spared, and the fowler kills him for it.", "predicament": "You have been caught, and you could save yourself by offering to deliver your colleagues to the one who caught you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 293, "story": 293, "summary": "A man catches a flea who pleads it does little harm, and kills it because no evil should be tolerated.", "predicament": "You have caught someone in a petty offence, and they plead that what they did was too small to matter.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 294, "story": 294, "summary": "A rich man presses his tanner neighbour to move, the tanner stalls, and the rich man grows used to the smell.", "predicament": "A powerful neighbour wants you gone and keeps pressing, and you could keep promising to leave soon without actually going.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 295, "story": 295, "summary": "A viper asks a file for a meal, and the file says he takes from everyone and gives nothing.", "predicament": "You have gone to ask for help from someone well known for taking from everyone and never giving.", "moral": "The covetous are poor givers."},
+{"chunk": 296, "story": 296, "summary": "A shepherd pulls a thorn from a lion's paw, and the lion later spares him in the arena.", "predicament": "Someone dangerous and in pain comes to you for help, and helping them means getting close to their claws.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 297, "story": 297, "summary": "A camel envying the bull's horns asks Jupiter for some and loses part of his ears.", "predicament": "Not content with your strengths, you are asking the boss for a colleague's distinctions too.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 298, "story": 298, "summary": "A panther in a pit, stoned by some shepherds and fed by others, escapes and takes revenge only on his attackers.", "predicament": "Someone dangerous has fallen, and others are pelting them while a few offer help, and you must choose which you will be.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 299, "story": 299, "summary": "A kite boasts he can catch ostriches to win an eagle's hand, and brings her a stale mouse.", "predicament": "Someone courting you for a partnership boasts of what they can deliver, and you have no way yet to check.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 300, "story": 300, "summary": "An eagle freed by a new owner brings him a hare, and a fox advises courting the old owner who clipped him.", "predicament": "A new employer has restored what your old one took from you, and you must decide whom to cultivate.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 301, "story": 301, "summary": "A prince confined because of his father's dream of a lion strikes at a painted lion, is pricked by a thorn and dies.", "predicament": "You have been confined to protect you from a danger someone only dreamed of, and you are raging against it.", "moral": "We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them."},
+{"chunk": 302, "story": 302, "summary": "A cat turned into a woman for love leaps from the bridal couch after a mouse.", "predicament": "You have been given a new, polished role, and an old temptation is about to be dropped in front of you.", "moral": "Nature exceeds nurture."},
+{"chunk": 303, "story": 303, "summary": "A beetle whose young an eagle ate pursues her eggs even into Jupiter's lap until they are broken.", "predicament": "Someone far more powerful destroyed what you cared about, and you could pursue them relentlessly even into their protector's presence.", "moral": "The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful."},
+{"chunk": 304, "story": 304, "summary": "The he-goats complain the she-goats got beards, and Jupiter says an empty badge makes them no equals.", "predicament": "Juniors have been given the same badge of rank as you, and you are tempted to complain to those above.", "moral": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances."},
+{"chunk": 305, "story": 305, "summary": "A bald man slaps his own head at a fly, and says he forgives himself but would kill the fly at any cost.", "predicament": "Someone small keeps needling you, and your efforts to hit back are hurting you more than them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 306, "story": 306, "summary": "A shipwrecked man blames the sea, who says the winds are to blame for her fury.", "predicament": "You were ruined in a venture and blame the institution, which says it was only stirred up by others.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 307, "story": 307, "summary": "A crowd prefers a buffoon's fake pig squeal to a countryman's real pig, until he shows it.", "predicament": "The crowd has already decided their favourite is better than you, however genuine your work, and you must show them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 308, "story": 308, "summary": "A hungry crow seizes a sleeping serpent as a windfall and is bitten to death.", "predicament": "You are desperate, and an easy prize seems to have been left lying unguarded right in front of you.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 309, "story": 309, "summary": "A horseman takes a hunter's hare under pretence of buying it and gallops off, and the hunter calls it a gift.", "predicament": "Someone has made off with what you earned, pretending to buy it, and you cannot catch them.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 310, "story": 310, "summary": "An evergreen olive mocks the fig for shedding leaves, and snow breaks the olive but passes through the fig.", "predicament": "A colleague mocks you for scaling back in lean seasons while they keep up appearances all year round.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 311, "story": 311, "summary": "The frogs protest the sun's marriage, fearing that more suns would parch them worse.", "predicament": "Someone who already makes your life hard is about to gain more power, and you could protest before it happens.", "moral": null},
+{"chunk": 312, "story": 312, "summary": "A brazier scolds his dog for sleeping while he works and waking only to beg at dinner.", "predicament": "Someone who dozes through all the work always wakes up just in time to ask for a share of the rewards.", "moral": null}
+]