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": 407, "story": 8, "summary": "On the eve of the season Keefe tells Al he has never felt better and will carry the club to the pennant, if the manager stops playing favourites.", "predicament": "Someone with little to show brags to a friend back home that he will carry everyone this year, if the boss plays fair."},
{"chunk": 408, "story": 8, "summary": "The country has declared war; Keefe airs belligerent opinions about the enemy and folds his grudge against umpires into them.", "predicament": "When a great public crisis breaks, a braggart airs loud opinions about it and mixes them up with his everyday grudges."},
{"chunk": 409, "story": 8, "summary": "He says only his wife, son and the club keep him from enlisting; he teases the coach that he will join up and is told the army would not take him.", "predicament": "A man who talks of volunteering for danger names his family and his employer as reasons he cannot, and is mocked for it."},
{"chunk": 410, "story": 8, "summary": "The manager has sent him home instead of taking him on the road, which Keefe reads as being saved for opening day; his three-year-old asks who he is.", "predicament": "Someone sent home early by the boss tells himself he is being saved for something big, and his own child does not know him."},
{"chunk": 411, "story": 8, "summary": "He finds his wife Florrie has run up big bills on clothes and hired a maid; she says she was tired of staying home or dragging the baby everywhere.", "predicament": "A husband resents the bills his wife has run up while he was away, and she answers that she was sick of being shut in."},
{"chunk": 412, "story": 8, "summary": "When he refuses to pay for her clothes and servant, Florrie says she will earn her own money and make more than he does; he scoffs at the idea.", "predicament": "A husband who scolds his wife's spending is told she will go out and earn more than he does, and he laughs at her."},
{"chunk": 413, "story": 8, "summary": "The draft law passes; Keefe assumes married men are safe and swallows the coach's joke that left-handers are exempt, sneering at them as lucky cowards.", "predicament": "When everyone of a certain age may be called away, a married man assumes he is safe and sneers at others who might escape."},
{"chunk": 414, "story": 8, "summary": "He claims he would volunteer if he had savings and fancies being an aviator; the coach says he is suited to it and was already up in the air in his last game.", "predicament": "A man boasts he would volunteer for the most daring job going, and an older colleague turns it into a joke about his last failure."},
{"chunk": 415, "story": 8, "summary": "He blames a sore arm for a bad game; Florrie cries until he hands her half his pay, and it turns out she has used it to open a beauty parlor with a partner.", "predicament": "A husband hands over money when his wife cries, then finds she has used it to start a business of her own without asking him."},
{"chunk": 416, "story": 8, "summary": "He explains to Al what a beauty parlor does and Florrie's plan to catch neighbourhood women who have no time to go downtown.", "predicament": "A husband describes his wife's new venture with baffled condescension, certain it cannot work but unable to say exactly why."},
{"chunk": 417, "story": 8, "summary": "Florrie secretly took lessons and her partner rates her highly; Keefe visits, sneers at the expenses and the lack of customers, and expects her to come back to him for money.", "predicament": "A man visits his wife's new business, predicts it will fail, and expects her to come running back to him for money."},
{"chunk": 418, "story": 8, "summary": "Keefe jokes to the coach that he stole the money; then he and the coach are both ordered off the field for heckling the umpire, and Keefe mocks the coach's age afterwards.", "predicament": "Someone joins an older colleague in mouthing off at an authority, gets thrown out with him, and then turns on the colleague."},
{"chunk": 419, "story": 8, "summary": "He begrudges a teammate the praise for a shutout; then he registers for the draft, imagining that the crowd there is thrilled to see him.", "predicament": "A man begrudges the praise a colleague gets, then goes to a compulsory sign-up imagining that everyone there is delighted to see him."},
{"chunk": 420, "story": 8, "summary": "Filling in the registration card he mocks the questions as foolish and, on instruction, claims exemption as married with dependents.", "predicament": "Filling in an official form, someone mocks the questions as stupid and writes down the family excuse he has been told to claim."},
{"chunk": 421, "story": 8, "summary": "He tries to get his sore arm recorded as a disability but the clerk ignores it; he grumbles the whole thing wastes his time and jokes about the maid's accent on the phone.", "predicament": "Someone tries to get a minor ailment onto an official record, is ignored, and grumbles that the whole process wastes his time."},
{"chunk": 422, "story": 8, "summary": "Florrie's business has already paid its expenses and some of its debts, and may need more staff; Keefe covers his surprise with jokes.", "predicament": "A man who predicted his wife's venture would fail learns it is paying its way, and covers his surprise with jokes."},
{"chunk": 423, "story": 8, "summary": "After a loss he rails at the reporters and insists his fly-out was really a hit that only an oddly placed fielder caught.", "predicament": "After a public failure, someone blames the people who reported it and insists he was only the victim of bad luck."},
{"chunk": 424, "story": 8, "summary": "In a tied inning he walks a batter and uses the coach's line on the umpire, who says he must have read it in a book.", "predicament": "Someone repeats a colleague's clever insult to a judge's face as his own, and is told at once that it is borrowed."},
{"chunk": 425, "story": 8, "summary": "He fails to cover first, is beaten by a double steal and gives up the winning hit, blaming the catcher, fielders and yelling teammates; the manager takes him out.", "predicament": "When things fall apart on his watch, a man blames every colleague who shouted at him, and is pulled off the job."},
{"chunk": 426, "story": 8, "summary": "He tells the manager he will quit and join the army; the manager mocks him, and Keefe sulks, then explains that only family and the owner's pennant hopes keep him from going.", "predicament": "Taken off a job and mocked by his boss, a man threatens to quit for something nobler, then finds reasons why he cannot."},
{"chunk": 427, "story": 8, "summary": "Florrie repays his loan and shows a handsome monthly profit; she is happier than before, and Keefe now boasts of her while he sits out games resting his arm.", "predicament": "A husband who mocked his wife's venture now boasts of her success, while his own work keeps him on the sidelines."},
{"chunk": 428, "story": 8, "summary": "He dreams of the series money; then, the day after losing a game, his draft number comes up fifth in the national drawing.", "predicament": "Right after a humiliating loss, a man learns his name has come up near the very top of a list he hoped to avoid."},
{"chunk": 429, "story": 8, "summary": "He assumes his family and his fame will excuse him, cites his small bond purchase, and the coach punctures his hope that ballplayers will be kept home for morale.", "predicament": "A man called up for duty is sure his family and his fame will get him excused, and lists the small sacrifices he has made."},
{"chunk": 430, "story": 8, "summary": "He tells Al he ought to be glad to go if drawn, then reports his own summons to the exemption board.", "predicament": "A man hoping to be excused urges a friend back home to go gladly, then gets his own summons to appear."},
{"chunk": 431, "story": 8, "summary": "At the medical exam he hints at poor digestion and a lame arm, is warned that lying is punishable, and is passed fit.", "predicament": "At a compulsory examination a man hints at ailments to get out of it, is warned about lying, and is passed anyway."},
{"chunk": 432, "story": 8, "summary": "He claims exemption for his wife and child and loyalty to his employer, and is told to bring his wife's sworn statement; the next letter opens complaining of back-biters.", "predicament": "Asked to prove his family depends on him, a man goes off confident, unaware that someone has already informed against him."},
{"chunk": 433, "story": 8, "summary": "A sympathetic board member warns him that an anonymous letter reports his wife's income, and that a false affidavit could send them both to prison.", "predicament": "A sympathetic insider warns a man that an anonymous tip has undercut his excuse, and that pressing it could land him in trouble."},
{"chunk": 434, "story": 8, "summary": "Keefe insists on appealing and hatches a plan: Florrie will sell her share of the business so that she really is dependent on him.", "predicament": "Told his excuse will not hold, a man schemes to make his wife give up her income so that he qualifies again."},
{"chunk": 435, "story": 8, "summary": "He tells Florrie a married woman's place is at home and she must sell; she proposes keeping the business until they see how the appeal goes, and they both choke up.", "predicament": "A husband dresses up a selfish scheme as concern for his wife, and she counters with a safer plan in case it fails."},
{"chunk": 436, "story": 8, "summary": "At the appeal hearing he admits his wife's income and says she spends it all on clothes; he tells Al he is secretly glad he was refused.", "predicament": "Pressed at a hearing about his wife's income, a man answers so clumsily that he destroys his own case."},
{"chunk": 437, "story": 8, "summary": "The appeal is refused; he blames Florrie's beauty parlor, but when she cries he stays home with her and the boy in silence.", "predicament": "After losing his appeal a man blames his wife's success for his fate, then cannot bear to scold her when she cries."},
{"chunk": 438, "story": 8, "summary": "The manager tells him he has been sold to a weak club; Keefe retorts that he has already signed with the army, is congratulated, and asks to pitch one last game.", "predicament": "Told by his boss that he has been sold off, a man saves face by announcing he is leaving anyway for a nobler cause."},
{"chunk": 439, "story": 8, "summary": "The coach praises him sincerely, the owner cancels the sale, and Keefe pitches a shutout, feeling he has had the last laugh on everyone.", "predicament": "A man everyone mocked is suddenly praised for leaving to serve, and goes out on a triumph that makes him feel vindicated."},
{"chunk": 440, "story": 8, "summary": "Florrie packs his things for camp; his small son asks to go with daddy, and Keefe imagines the boy will someday brag about his father.", "predicament": "On the eve of being sent away, a man says goodbye to his small son and consoles himself with how proud the boy will be."}
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