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
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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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