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": 103,
"story": 3,
"summary": "The league president confirms that Comiskey sold Jack to Milwaukee improperly, since Detroit had put in a late claim; Jack gloats, though he learns Comiskey still owns him.",
"predicament": "Someone who was pushed out learns the boss broke the rules doing it, and gloats while still being the boss's property."
},
{
"chunk": 104,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack daydreams about joining Detroit, pitching every other day, winning them the pennant and beating his old team.",
"predicament": "Someone who may be moving to a rival outfit daydreams about carrying them to glory and humbling his old one."
},
{
"chunk": 105,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack gloats about how Violet will regret marrying Joe Hill once she sees Jack starring for her husband's club, and plans to punch Hill if he speaks.",
"predicament": "A man who may end up working beside the rival who married his old flame imagines her regret and his triumph."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack wants Florrie to sue him for divorce so that it costs him nothing, and would pay her at most a hundred dollars.",
"predicament": "A deserted husband wants his wife to start the divorce so it costs him nothing, and haggles over what she deserves."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 3,
"summary": "At the ballpark an assistant secretary says Comiskey will keep Jack rather than give him to a rival, and needles him about living on his savings; Jack storms out.",
"predicament": "Someone sure he is free to leave is told by an underling that the boss will keep him rather than help a rival."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack vows never to work for the White Sox again, plans to threaten Comiskey with the rule-breaking, and asks Al for more money.",
"predicament": "A man stuck waiting on the boss's decision plans to threaten him with a rules breach while borrowing from a friend again."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack says he'll sue for his salary if not released, reminds Al that he always treated him as an equal, and plans to skip the flat's rent until he is evicted.",
"predicament": "A debtor assures the friend lending him money that repayment is certain, while planning to dodge rent on the home he left."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack announces he will pitch for the White Sox after all and claims he forced concessions; in fact he was made to wait, and Comiskey asked why he assumed he was going to Detroit.",
"predicament": "Someone who swore he would never work for the boss again goes back, and tells his friend he won concessions."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Comiskey tells Jack he was sent down for drinking all winter, trying to renegotiate a signed contract and approaching the Federal League, and says he could still get rid of him.",
"predicament": "The boss tells someone exactly why he was sent away, listing his drinking and disloyalty, and says he could do it again."
},
{
"chunk": 112,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Comiskey offers Jack a choice between staying at his signed salary and sobering up or being sent to Milwaukee; flattered by a remark about beating Cobb, Jack agrees and gets a three-year contract.",
"predicament": "Given a choice between behaving at the old terms or being sent away, someone is flattered into agreeing and thinks he won."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"story": 3,
"summary": "The three-year contract is at the same salary, which Jack reads as proof of esteem; he resolves to cut down on drinking and not to report Comiskey's rule-breaking.",
"predicament": "Someone locked into the same pay for longer takes it as a compliment, and quietly drops his threat against the boss."
},
{
"chunk": 114,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack dodges the rent collector, abandons the flat and its furniture, and arrives at the training camp, where Gleason greets him with a punch in the stomach.",
"predicament": "Someone who skips out on his debts arrives back at work sure everyone is delighted, and is greeted with rough mockery."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Gleason mocks Jack's fatness and tells him he will be working with the second squad; Jack is sure he is joking.",
"predicament": "A returning worker who has let himself go is told he is being put with the lesser group and assumes it is a joke."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack thinks the players are glad to have him back and the recruits fear him, and that the club should spend its money on hitters rather than new pitchers; he insists he will join the first team.",
"predicament": "Someone assigned to the lesser group insists the boss wants him with the elite and that newcomers must fear him."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Gleason shows Jack a wire from Callahan ordering him kept with the second team, and tells him to stay or jump in the ocean.",
"predicament": "Someone who insisted he knew the boss's wishes is shown the boss's written order keeping him in the lesser group."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Gleason says Jack is better off away from the first squad, where Allen and his wife travel, and that he wants to keep Jack working and eating less; Jack says he is waiting to be called up.",
"predicament": "A mentor kindly keeps someone away from his estranged in-laws and temptations, and he tells himself it is only temporary."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 3,
"summary": "In a San Francisco cafe Hazel and her prizefighter husband invite Jack over; she mocks his stinginess, he brings up the thirty dollars she kept, and the husband threatens him.",
"predicament": "A man meets the former fiancée who kept his money, now married, and his demand for it draws her husband's threat."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack backs away from the table claiming he chose not to fight, says he is off women, and brags about four good innings against his old minor-league club.",
"predicament": "A man who backed down from a threatening husband tells it as his own restraint, and swears off women entirely."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Gleason cuts Jack's huge supper order and calls him hog fat, and they nearly come to blows.",
"predicament": "Someone who thinks a good day's work earns him a feast is overruled by a mentor who says his weight is the problem."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Heading east still with the second team, Jack rationalises being left there and sneers at the recruits and the scouts who found them.",
"predicament": "Someone still kept with the lesser group explains it as the boss's confidence and sneers at the newcomers around him."
},
{
"chunk": 123,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack blames poor support and illness for being hit, and grumbles that Callahan did not bring him home a day early to rest for the opener.",
"predicament": "Someone given ordinary treatment feels slighted, expecting to be rested and honoured for a big occasion he was never offered."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack assumes he is being saved for the opener, resents Gleason watching his every meal, and sneaks off to eat after breakfast.",
"predicament": "Someone watched closely by a mentor for his own good resents the supervision and sneaks off to indulge anyway."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack plans a big steak and pie as soon as he is free of Gleason; on payday he tells Al he cannot yet repay the seventy-five dollars.",
"predicament": "A debtor who promised to repay his friend on the first payday explains why he cannot, after planning a feast."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"story": 3,
"summary": "In the clubhouse Allen offers his hand and urges Jack to write to Florrie; Jack says he will get a lawyer and sue her for divorce.",
"predicament": "An estranged relative offers a handshake and urges reconciliation with a wife, and the man threatens lawyers instead."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Warned that Florrie could sue him for non-support, Jack sends her ten dollars; he refuses to talk to Marie, and notes that the newly married Benz pitched a shutout.",
"predicament": "A man threatening divorce is warned his wife could sue him instead, and sends her money to protect his reputation."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Callahan hasn't used Jack, saying he is waiting for him to get in shape, and jokes that Jack covers more ground than the grandstand.",
"predicament": "Someone left idle asks the boss why, and is told his condition is the problem with a joke about his size."
},
{
"chunk": 129,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack is fined fifty dollars for losing a ten-inning game one to nothing; Callahan says he threw it deliberately, and Jack admits he aimed at Joe Hill's head with the bases full.",
"predicament": "Someone who let a personal grudge wreck an important effort is fined, and complains he was treated unfairly."
},
{
"chunk": 130,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Warming up in Detroit, Jack sees Violet in the stands and exchanges smiles, notices Joe Hill will oppose him, and trades a quip with the Detroit manager.",
"predicament": "A man about to face his old flame's husband in public sees her watching, and is sure she regrets her choice."
},
{
"chunk": 131,
"story": 3,
"summary": "The game stays scoreless; Jack dismisses Hill's success as luck and keeps smiling up at Violet between innings.",
"predicament": "A man matched evenly against his rival calls the rival's success luck and keeps playing to the woman watching."
},
{
"chunk": 132,
"story": 3,
"summary": "In the tenth, with the bases loaded, Jack insists on batting himself, insults Hill, and strikes out on a pitch he blames on the umpire.",
"predicament": "Someone who insists on taking the decisive moment himself to beat a rival fails, and blames the judge."
},
{
"chunk": 133,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Hill taunts that he already has Jack's girl and his goat; Jack loses control, hits one batter and walks another in a rage.",
"predicament": "A rival's taunt about having won the woman sends a man into a rage that wrecks his work at the worst moment."
},
{
"chunk": 134,
"story": 3,
"summary": "While Gleason and Callahan argue about removing him, Jack deliberately hits Hill in the head, forcing in the winning run; he regrets only failing to hurt him.",
"predicament": "A man consumed by jealousy deliberately harms his rival in public, throwing away the outcome for his side."
},
{
"chunk": 135,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Callahan fines and suspends Jack, saying his brains are in his stomach; payday brings deductions for the fine and last winter's advance, and Jack sends Florrie twenty-five dollars.",
"predicament": "Someone fined and suspended for a spiteful act finds his pay eaten by penalties and old advances he had forgotten."
},
{
"chunk": 136,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Still suspended, Jack refuses Allen's wife's attempts to reconcile him with Florrie; then Callahan reinstates him, saying time off might make him think.",
"predicament": "A suspended worker is brought back by a boss who hoped the time off would teach him to think."
},
{
"chunk": 137,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack beats Detroit, blames the umpire for a triple, and makes Hill look foolish at the plate.",
"predicament": "Someone given a second chance against his rival makes the rival look foolish, and still blames the judge for a slip."
},
{
"chunk": 138,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Hill threatens to throw at Jack's head, and Jack retorts with a joke he thinks is clever and explains laboriously to Al.",
"predicament": "A rival threatens to hurt someone in revenge, and he answers with a joke he has to explain to his friend."
},
{
"chunk": 139,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Hill throws at Jack three times, then grooves one that Jack drives for a two-run double; Jack wins five to four, and Callahan hints at refunding the fine.",
"predicament": "Someone whose rival tries to hurt him keeps his head and wins the day, earning the boss's hint of forgiveness."
},
{
"chunk": 140,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Jack repays Al's seventy-five dollars and boasts of his eastern trip; Florrie is back, and they live rent-free in the Allens' spare room.",
"predicament": "A man finally repays his friend and reunites with his wife, then moves in rent-free with the in-laws he despises."
},
{
"chunk": 141,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Florrie phoned from the Allens', cried, apologised and told Jack a 'secret' that reconciled them, and Jack says let bygones be bygones.",
"predicament": "A wife who walked out calls with news that changes everything, and her husband takes her back at once."
},
{
"chunk": 142,
"story": 3,
"summary": "Florrie has had a baby boy, named Allen, whom Jack secretly considers named for Al; he is overjoyed at having a real family despite the bills.",
"predicament": "A struggling man becomes a father, is overjoyed at having a real family, and brushes aside the debts piling up."
},
{
"chunk": 143,
"story": 3,
"summary": "The doctor says the baby seems left-handed, and Jack storms out, vowing to find another doctor to fix it.",
"predicament": "A new father who scorns a certain kind of person learns his own child may turn out that way, and panics."
}
]