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": 644, "story": 15, "summary": "Keefe boasts of an April Fool prank on Alcock, a comrade anxious because his sweetheart back home, courted by a man who dodged the draft, has stopped writing.", "predicament": "A man boasts to a friend of a prank he played on a colleague who was already miserable about losing his sweetheart."},
{"chunk": 645, "story": 15, "summary": "He put an April Fool note in an old envelope from the girl and handed it to Alcock as new mail; Alcock, crushed, wants to hit him, and Keefe mocks his size.", "predicament": "Someone cruelly raises a lonely colleague's hopes with a fake message from home, then mocks him for not laughing."},
{"chunk": 646, "story": 15, "summary": "Alcock vows revenge and stops speaking to him; Keefe claims not to care, then jokes about local matches that never light.", "predicament": "A prankster whose victim now refuses to speak to him insists he does not care, while the victim vows to get even."},
{"chunk": 647, "story": 15, "summary": "He complains that the troops hear no news of the big enemy offensive to the north and cannot read the local papers.", "predicament": "Kept in the dark far from the real action, a newcomer complains that everyone back home knows more than he does."},
{"chunk": 648, "story": 15, "summary": "He concludes they are unlikely to see battle, since the enemy would not be foolish enough to attack their sector.", "predicament": "Stuck in a quiet corner, someone reassures himself the danger will never come his way, while claiming to want it."},
{"chunk": 649, "story": 15, "summary": "The allies have named a single supreme commander, a foreigner; Keefe grumbles that he should have been someone who speaks English.", "predicament": "When a single leader is put over everyone, a man grumbles that the choice should have been someone like himself."},
{"chunk": 650, "story": 15, "summary": "He concedes one boss is better than several, illustrating with an absurd picture of four managers sending up four pinch-hitters.", "predicament": "A man reasons from his old work that one boss giving orders beats several bosses contradicting each other."},
{"chunk": 651, "story": 15, "summary": "He notes troops have taken over a sector, then boasts his marksmanship has improved so much he may be made a sniper and never have to go into the trenches.", "predicament": "Someone boasts his skill has improved so much he will be given a special post that keeps him out of the worst danger."},
{"chunk": 652, "story": 15, "summary": "Alcock has heard from his girl and made up with Keefe, who says nobody can stay sore at him; the next letter announces he has turned detective.", "predicament": "After a colleague forgives his cruel prank, a man credits his own charm, and then announces a thrilling new discovery."},
{"chunk": 653, "story": 15, "summary": "He hints darkly that he is on the trail of something big and will soon expose a certain man.", "predicament": "A man who fancies himself a sleuth hints that he is about to expose a colleague and win great credit."},
{"chunk": 654, "story": 15, "summary": "He suspects a large, silent comrade, Shaffer, of being an enemy spy because of his German-sounding name and his silence.", "predicament": "A man decides a silent, unfriendly colleague must be a traitor, on no evidence except his name and his manner."},
{"chunk": 655, "story": 15, "summary": "Shaffer drops a page of a letter full of rows of crosses; Keefe reads it and takes the marks for cipher.", "predicament": "Someone reads a colleague's private letter and takes its ordinary endearments for a secret code."},
{"chunk": 656, "story": 15, "summary": "He hides the page when Shaffer searches for it; Alcock advises him to gather more evidence before reporting, to get the credit.", "predicament": "A man hides a colleague's lost letter, and a joker urges him to keep spying on the colleague to win credit."},
{"chunk": 657, "story": 15, "summary": "He copies the suspicious lines: plain love-letter abbreviations and a remark about drinking only a little wine.", "predicament": "Someone copies out lines of a colleague's love letter as proof of treachery, without seeing what they obviously are."},
{"chunk": 658, "story": 15, "summary": "Alcock says exposing a spy will earn him an intelligence commission in the capital; Keefe says he would sacrifice fighting for it, and Alcock coaches him to interrogate the suspect.", "predicament": "A joker convinces a credulous man that exposing a colleague will win him a safe, glamorous post, and coaches him on it."},
{"chunk": 659, "story": 15, "summary": "He repeats Alcock's absurd claim about the number of infiltrating spies and relishes the prospect of Shaffer being shot; next, he says his case is nearly complete.", "predicament": "Someone gleefully imagines a colleague punished for a crime that exists only in his head, and prepares to report him."},
{"chunk": 660, "story": 15, "summary": "He clumsily interrogates Shaffer, who gets annoyed and says the enemy offensive may not be finished.", "predicament": "A self-appointed investigator clumsily cross-examines an innocent colleague and hears guilt in every irritated answer."},
{"chunk": 661, "story": 15, "summary": "Shaffer jokes the enemy stops to bring up its commander; Keefe demands who told him their plans, and Shaffer says his mother-in-law and walks off.", "predicament": "An amateur investigator springs what he thinks is a trap, and the colleague answers with a joke and walks off."},
{"chunk": 662, "story": 15, "summary": "Keefe thinks the mother-in-law proves a lie, since Shaffer said he was unmarried; Alcock backs him, and an officer arranges a meeting with the captain.", "predicament": "Sure he has caught a colleague lying, a man secures a meeting with someone above him to lay out his case."},
{"chunk": 663, "story": 15, "summary": "He imagines the captain praising him; Alcock produces a second letter supposedly by Shaffer, addressed to the enemy's commander.", "predicament": "As a man prepares to accuse a colleague, the joker behind the scheme hands him forged evidence to clinch it."},
{"chunk": 664, "story": 15, "summary": "The forged letter is a scrap of a German folk song signed with Shaffer's initials; Alcock translates it as a report of troop numbers and an attack signal.", "predicament": "A joker gives a false translation of a harmless document, and a credulous man takes it as proof of betrayal."},
{"chunk": 665, "story": 15, "summary": "Keefe imagines his comrades' gratitude and, on Alcock's advice, pictures himself in disguise among spies in the capital.", "predicament": "Someone fed a fantasy about his coming promotion pictures himself in a glamorous secret role far from his colleagues."},
{"chunk": 666, "story": 15, "summary": "He fears he would have to seduce enemy agents' mistresses and break their hearts, but says he would do it if ordered.", "predicament": "Imagining a glamorous secret role, a vain man frets that he will have to break women's hearts, and nobly agrees to it."},
{"chunk": 667, "story": 15, "summary": "After a poor day at the range, he decides to shoot badly on purpose so he will not be made a sniper, calling sniping unfair.", "predicament": "Someone who boasted of his skill decides to hide it after all, to avoid a dangerous assignment, and calls the job unfair."},
{"chunk": 668, "story": 15, "summary": "Endless training continues; Alcock passes on a driver's claim that snipers make up most of the casualties; the next letter claims the pranksters were the fools.", "predicament": "Told that the special post he boasted of is the deadliest of all, a man grows eager to avoid it."},
{"chunk": 669, "story": 15, "summary": "Keefe claims he saw through Alcock's forged spy letter because a real spy would never sign his own initials.", "predicament": "Someone who fell completely for a colleague's prank claims afterwards that he saw through it all along."},
{"chunk": 670, "story": 15, "summary": "He took the letters to the captain anyway and announced there was a traitor in the company; the captain said he would think him crazy.", "predicament": "A man takes his accusation against a colleague to his superior anyway, and the superior is openly sceptical."},
{"chunk": 671, "story": 15, "summary": "The captain explains the crosses are kisses and the initials a lover's shorthand to a girl back home.", "predicament": "A superior patiently explains that the secret code a man uncovered is just a colleague's love letter."},
{"chunk": 672, "story": 15, "summary": "Reading the forgery, the captain says he has been pranked again and should keep quiet; back in quarters Keefe threatens Alcock to forestall the laughter.", "predicament": "Told by his superior he has been fooled again, a man heads off his colleagues' laughter by threatening the prankster."},
{"chunk": 673, "story": 15, "summary": "He claims the joke fell flat and that he never wanted the intelligence job anyway, preferring to fight fair.", "predicament": "Embarrassed after a prank, a man claims he outwitted the pranksters and never wanted the reward they dangled."},
{"chunk": 674, "story": 15, "summary": "He has a black eye and swollen face which he blames on a fall; Shaffer, told his letter was stolen and shown about, confronted him while he read a vain letter from his wife.", "predicament": "The colleague a man wrongly accused learns his private letter was read and passed around, and comes to confront him."},
{"chunk": 675, "story": 15, "summary": "Shaffer calls him a snake and punches him; Keefe says he tripped over a bench and would have won had he known it was serious.", "predicament": "Beaten by the colleague he wronged, a man insists he only tripped and would have won if he had been ready."},
{"chunk": 676, "story": 15, "summary": "He blames Alcock for stirring Shaffer up, grants that Shaffer had reason to be angry, and still insists he could have beaten him.", "predicament": "After taking a beating he earned, a man blames the one who stirred things up, and still insists he is tougher."},
{"chunk": 677, "story": 15, "summary": "The unit is ordered to the front; Keefe claims to be thrilled and says the others are secretly frightened, then mentions a joke about him in the company paper.", "predicament": "Ordered into real danger at last, a man claims to be thrilled and says it is his colleagues who are secretly afraid."},
{"chunk": 678, "story": 15, "summary": "The company paper lists him as wounded in action and mock-decorated by Shaffer for exposing spies, with a black eye, a red nose and cauliflower ears.", "predicament": "Colleagues publish a mocking tribute to a man's humiliating beating, and he vows the laugh will be on them in the end."}
]