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": 744,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Home in Chicago and discharged by the doctor, Keefe says his wounded arm is sound but weak, and announces that he has given up the idea of returning to baseball.",
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"predicament": "Back from a long absence and patched up, a man announces he is giving up his old line of work for good."
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},
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"chunk": 745,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He argues that after the war baseball seems a baby's game, and that he should quit while young and start a business where he can rise to $15,000 a year without depending on his arm.",
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"predicament": "A man who has seen bigger things decides his old work is beneath him, and assumes he can rise quickly in something new."
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},
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"chunk": 746,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He adds that business would keep him home with his family, and brushes aside his lack of experience by pointing to his quick success in baseball and his rapid promotion to corporal, which he claims he declined to build on.",
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"predicament": "Without any experience in a new line, a man assures a friend that he has never yet failed at anything he tried."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 747,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He expects employers to fall over themselves to hire a famous wounded soldier. In the next letter, a week later, he is bitter that Chicago businessmen seem not to know there was a war.",
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"predicament": "A man sure his reputation will open every door has found, within a week, that the people with jobs to give are unimpressed."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 748,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Over drinks, a fan who is assistant manager at a department store offers to recommend Keefe as a floorwalker, a job for a well-dressed man who can smile at lady customers.",
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"predicament": "An admirer offers a man looking for work a modest opening, and he goes along mostly so as not to offend him."
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},
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"chunk": 749,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "At the interview Keefe jokes about his feet, sneers at counter work, cites his experience in the big leagues of baseball and war, and pleads that his wife shops there; the manager dryly declines.",
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"predicament": "At an interview for a modest job, a man sneers at the work, boasts of unrelated glories, and is turned down."
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},
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"chunk": 750,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "At the gas company an old supervisor offers him only meter reading, and he walks out; he decides he will wait for employers to come to him rather than expose himself to insults.",
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"predicament": "Offered only the lowliest opening, a proud man walks out and resolves to wait for employers to come to him instead."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 751,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The old fans' saloon is full of strangers; at home his wife suggests he go back to baseball, and he says he would only return for $5,000, double his old pay, noting that she clears $250 a month from her beauty parlour.",
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"predicament": "After a day of rebuffs, a man's wife suggests he return to his old work, and he names double what he earned."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 752,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "His wife teases that she will hire him as the children's nurse if nothing else turns up; he jokes about the baby never sleeping and excuses himself from night duty on account of his arm.",
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"predicament": "A man out of work is teased by his earning wife that she could employ him at home, and dodges the chores."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 753,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "At the league meeting Keefe tells a former teammate he is quitting for business and boasts he always made him look foolish; the man retorts that Keefe was always knocked out of the game before he came up to bat.",
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"predicament": "Mixing with old colleagues, a man boasts of how he once outshone one of them and gets a cutting reminder of his failures."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 754,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "No old teammates mention his war service, which he decides is a sore subject for them; the manager only jokes that it was lucky he was not left-handed, which Keefe takes as a sign a fat contract is coming.",
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"predicament": "Ignored by old colleagues and teased by someone above him, a man reads their indifference as proof they are eager to have him back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 755,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He leaves a noisy drinking session early and passes over a vague job advertisement because it is out of town, resolving to play the waiting game and let offers come to him.",
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"predicament": "A man with no real prospects decides to let offers come to him and play the bidders off against each other."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 756,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Christmas shopping, Keefe grumbles at his wife's lavish buying, which she says she pays for though the bills come to him; she proposes starting a pearl necklace for their baby daughter.",
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"predicament": "A man grumbles at his wife's spending while she insists it is her own money, though he expects to pay the bills."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 757,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe argues for buying pearls later and something breakable now, mocking the idea of a present that is hidden away; he loses the argument and the chain costs $47.50.",
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"predicament": "A man argues against a costly family gift his wife has set her heart on, loses as usual, and pretends not to mind."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 758,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "They boycott the store whose manager rejected him, and Keefe claims he is glad he 'turned down' the job after seeing how women jostle the floorwalkers; he dreads what present his wife has bought him.",
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"predicament": "Rejected for a modest job, a man boycotts the place and tells himself he was the one who turned it down."
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},
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"chunk": 759,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He sends Christmas greetings, saying they are holding back on spending. A week later he still has not chosen a line of business, claims several offers, and muses about writing baseball reports better than the ignorant reporters.",
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"predicament": "Still idle weeks later, a man claims to be weighing several offers, and imagines he could outdo the people who judge his old work."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 760,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Bored at home, Keefe drops in at the ballpark office on a pretext, chats with the club secretary, and learns the owner has left no word about him; he assumes a contract will simply arrive.",
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"predicament": "A man who claims to have left his old employer drops by on a pretext, hoping to hear they want him back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 761,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He repeats his reasons for quitting, now saying he would refuse even $4,000; he describes Christmas, with his son's toys already broken and the baby's gifts put away for later.",
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"predicament": "Insisting he is finished with his old work, a man keeps quietly lowering the price at which he would go back."
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},
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"chunk": 762,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He suspects his wife's gift of a phonograph is for when he is out, and gives her a shower attachment. Next letter: Kid Gleason has been named manager, which Keefe says changes everything just as he was about to accept a business offer.",
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"predicament": "Just as a man claims he was about to try something new, a change at the top of his old workplace revives his hopes."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 763,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe claims he was the new manager's favourite because he gave back as good as he got when teased, recalls an exchange in which he was clearly the butt of the joke, and says Gleason alone would have given him regular work.",
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"predicament": "A man convinces himself the new person in charge has always favoured him, though his memories show he was mostly the joke."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 764,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He expects Gleason to wire or visit asking his terms, and says that out of friendship he will sacrifice his business chances and sign for $4,000, since the new manager will need all the help he can get.",
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"predicament": "A man casts his hoped-for return as a personal sacrifice made out of loyalty to the new person in charge."
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},
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"chunk": 765,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He imagines the crowds cheering the returned hero. A month later Gleason is reported coming to Chicago, and Keefe decides the real purpose of the visit must be to sign him.",
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"predicament": "Hearing that the person in charge is coming to town on other business, a man decides the visit is really about him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 766,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe had written offering to play for $3,600 and got no answer, which he explains away as Gleason preferring to talk face to face; he leaves his phone number at the ballpark.",
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"predicament": "A man whose written offer went unanswered explains the silence away and waits confidently by the telephone."
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},
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"chunk": 767,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "His wife teases that if he goes back to earning a living she will have no dependent husband to keep her out of the next war; they joke, and Keefe vows to walk away if Gleason tries any 'monkey business'.",
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"predicament": "A man's wife teases him for depending on her income, while he vows to walk away if his old employer haggles."
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},
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"chunk": 768,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe reports a long talk with Gleason; when the expected call never came, he went to the ballpark himself and waited an hour outside the owner's office.",
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"predicament": "When the call he was sure of never comes, a man goes to the workplace himself and waits outside to be seen."
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"chunk": 769,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Gleason greets him with insults, says he did not open his letter, and when Keefe names $3,000 contrasts the army's $30 a month and hard living with the luxury Keefe now wants to be paid for.",
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"predicament": "A man names his price to someone above him and gets only mockery about how little effort the job really takes."
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},
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"chunk": 770,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Gleason jokes about the stockyards 'offer', then explains that rosters are cut and Keefe may come south only as a favour for having gone to France, to show whether he can still pitch; he should be satisfied with whatever contract comes.",
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"predicament": "Someone above you offers only a trial, as a courtesy, and advises you to accept whatever terms you are sent."
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},
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"chunk": 771,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe takes 'satisfied' to mean $3,000. Next letter: he is quitting baseball for good, because the contract arrived at $2,400, less than his pre-war $2,500, and he went to see the owner.",
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"predicament": "A man who read vague reassurance as a promise receives terms lower than he earned before he left."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 772,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Comiskey coolly says there is nothing to discuss unless Keefe has signed; Keefe protests he is being fined for serving his country, and Comiskey says any difference is up to Gleason to pay himself.",
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"predicament": "A man protests to the top that his offer is lower than before he left to serve, and is coolly passed back down."
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},
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"chunk": 773,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe asks to be traded; Comiskey says only the worst club would take him, then mocks him for leaving the contract behind; Keefe says he will tear it up and walks out, claiming to be glad.",
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"predicament": "Told that nobody else would want him either, a proud man storms out, taking the rejected offer with him."
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},
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"chunk": 774,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe blames the owner, not Gleason, and predicts ruin for the club. Twelve days later he announces he leaves for Texas with the team, claiming his silence made them come to him.",
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"predicament": "Days after storming out, a man announces he is going back after all, and claims his silence forced their hand."
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{
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"chunk": 775,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "It was Keefe who phoned back; Gleason only asked if he was coming and said he would earn more if he deserved it, and Keefe signed for $2,400, which he calls the same as his old pay.",
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"predicament": "A man who held out for more signs on the original terms and tells a friend it was a victory."
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"chunk": 776,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Keefe vows to work his head off to prove them right, and jokes that at least travelling will let him escape the crying baby and get some sleep.",
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"predicament": "Back on the terms he refused, a man vows to prove his worth and consoles himself that home was no rest anyway."
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}
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