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": 877,
"story": 22,
"summary": "On the road in New York the club is battered by injuries and a rising Detroit, and Keefe has 'stomach trouble' he blames on something he ate; a teammate loses a game on his lame colleague's misplays.",
"predicament": "With the group worn down and a rival closing in, a man excuses his own poor form with a convenient ailment."
},
{
"chunk": 878,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe admires Carl Mays, who walked out on his failing club and, instead of being punished, was courted and traded to a contender; he concludes it is foolish to stay loyal to a club that gives you the worst of it.",
"predicament": "A man watches a colleague walk out on a failing employer and be rewarded for it, and concludes loyalty is for fools."
},
{
"chunk": 879,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe resolves to walk out too if Gleason crosses him, sure Detroit would snap him up; he tells Al he had six highballs after the game for his stomach.",
"predicament": "Imagining himself in demand elsewhere, a man vows to walk out at the first slight, while quietly drinking to excess."
},
{
"chunk": 880,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe complains Gleason relies on only two pitchers and has benched him since he lost two games 'with his stomach'; when he says Gleason might as well have left him home, Gleason agrees.",
"predicament": "Benched after two poor showings, a man complains that he is being wasted, and someone above agrees he is useless."
},
{
"chunk": 881,
"story": 22,
"summary": "He contrasts Gleason with Detroit's manager, who uses all his pitchers, mocks Gleason's pursuit of other clubs' pitchers and his new signings as signs he has gone 'cuckoo', and derides the league president's suspension of Mays.",
"predicament": "Kept out of things, a man decides the person in charge has lost his mind for seeking help from outside instead of using him."
},
{
"chunk": 882,
"story": 22,
"summary": "In Boston Keefe and a teammate pay $7 for a quart of vile liquor to last the Sabbath, and he reminisces about ordering drinks with sandwiches in the old days.",
"predicament": "A man who says he needs to get back in shape pays heavily for a bottle to see him through a quiet day."
},
{
"chunk": 883,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe reports that he has been sent ahead to Philadelphia with the star Cicotte to rest, and takes it as a sign he will now pitch in his regular turn.",
"predicament": "Sent ahead of the group on a special errand, a man takes it as a mark of favour and a promise of regular work."
},
{
"chunk": 884,
"story": 22,
"summary": "In fact Gleason told him his last two games looked heartless and his stomach would not mend on a liquid diet; he is sending Keefe ahead to dry out and will know whether he has behaved himself.",
"predicament": "Someone above bluntly names a man's drinking as the cause of his failures, and gives him one unsupervised chance to shape up."
},
{
"chunk": 885,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe says he will stay sober to give his best, though three or four drinks would not hurt; next letter, he says Gleason has gone cuckoo and only loyalty to the other players keeps him from walking out.",
"predicament": "Given a last chance to stay sober, a man promises to behave, but already reckons a few drinks will not be noticed."
},
{
"chunk": 886,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Instead of watching the opponents with Cicotte, Keefe stayed in the hotel to 'forget baseball', got lonely, went drinking with a fan, and agreed to a trip to Atlantic City.",
"predicament": "Left on his own to rest before a test, a man skips the preparation, gets bored, and goes out drinking with a friend."
},
{
"chunk": 887,
"story": 22,
"summary": "At the seaside they drink a quart, fall asleep on the beach, and miss the train; Keefe returns at nine next morning to find Gleason in the lobby, and claims he was out for a walk.",
"predicament": "A man who oversleeps after a night of drinking returns late to find someone above waiting, and tells a flimsy lie."
},
{
"chunk": 888,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Gleason makes Keefe start; he walks the first two batters and is pulled, and when he protests, Gleason reveals he knows about the Atlantic City trip and threatens him.",
"predicament": "Sent in hungover, a man fails at once and protests he was not given a fair chance, only to learn his secret is known."
},
{
"chunk": 889,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe admits the trip but calls it a swim, walks off rather than argue, and watches Cicotte win 1-0; he insists he could have done the same and says only loyalty to the players keeps him from leaving.",
"predicament": "Caught out and replaced by a colleague who succeeds, a man insists he could have done as well and threatens to quit."
},
{
"chunk": 890,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe hints to Al that a rival club wants him; after a game, Detroit's manager chats with him and jokes that Keefe's pitching did not look like pitching for Gleason, which Keefe calls just his way.",
"predicament": "A man sure a rival employer wants him hears only a teasing remark from its head, and takes it as encouragement."
},
{
"chunk": 891,
"story": 22,
"summary": "The Detroit manager says Gleason would never trade a pitcher to a pennant rival; Keefe suggests walking out like Mays, and is told that Detroit could offer only money, which the owner does not need.",
"predicament": "Floating the idea of walking out to a rival's head, a man is told politely there is no way they could take him."
},
{
"chunk": 892,
"story": 22,
"summary": "When Keefe threatens to go to another rival, the Detroit manager says he doubts it and winks, which Keefe reads as a secret promise; a Detroit player urges him to jump, and Keefe says he will wait and see.",
"predicament": "A man reads a rival's wink and a joke as a secret promise of a place, and starts planning around it."
},
{
"chunk": 893,
"story": 22,
"summary": "A reporter tells him Gleason tried to buy the pitcher Page; Keefe hints that he might walk out, and the reporter warns that talk like that may reach Gleason, who will beat him to it. Keefe says he has told only a few discreet teammates.",
"predicament": "Warned that loose talk about quitting will reach the person in charge first, a man insists only a trusted few know."
},
{
"chunk": 894,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Used in relief, Keefe says he considered throwing the game to spite Gleason but pitched well for his teammates' sake; when Gleason pats him on the back he pretends to be won over.",
"predicament": "Called on in a pinch, a man is tempted to do badly out of spite, then does well for his colleagues' sake."
},
{
"chunk": 895,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe expects the club to win the pennant and at last get him a World Series share, which he feels he is owed for giving up the chance in 1917 by going to war.",
"predicament": "Seeing his group near a big reward, a man feels he is owed a share for the sacrifice he once made."
},
{
"chunk": 896,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe speculates about a World Series against Cincinnati and insists that after one good relief outing Gleason must start him at least once.",
"predicament": "After one good showing, a man assumes he will be given a starring part when the big occasion comes."
},
{
"chunk": 897,
"story": 22,
"summary": "When Cicotte is shelled Gleason only says 'better luck next time'; Keefe complains of unequal treatment and Gleason says Cicotte lacked stuff on the mound, while Keefe had too much 'stuff' before he got there.",
"predicament": "A man protests that a colleague's failure is forgiven while his was punished, and is told the difference was his drinking."
},
{
"chunk": 898,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe invites Al to come to Cincinnati for a World Series game he expects to pitch, offering to sell him one of his tickets and go drinking afterwards.",
"predicament": "Sure of a starring part in a big event, a man invites an old friend to come and watch him shine."
},
{
"chunk": 899,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe urges Al to leave his wife at home, saying wives are a nuisance on trips; he reports that his own wife, at odds with her partners, will sell out of the beauty parlour, which he welcomes as a woman's place is home.",
"predicament": "A man welcomes his wife's giving up her own earnings, sure his own income and prospects will be more than enough."
},
{
"chunk": 900,
"story": 22,
"summary": "An opposing coach calls Keefe 'Carl', so Gleason learns of his talk of walking out; Keefe calls it a joke, and Gleason says he cannot take chances on a pitcher with two good innings in a month and he may walk as far as he likes.",
"predicament": "A man's talk of quitting reaches the person in charge through a rival's jibe, and he is told he may go."
},
{
"chunk": 901,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe complains his teammates never score for him; his wife has quit the partnership, recovering only about $250 and some salary, and they plan a party to celebrate her retirement.",
"predicament": "As his standing at work slips, a man celebrates his wife giving up her earnings, as though money will take care of itself."
},
{
"chunk": 902,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe announces he is through with Gleason unless he gets more money and a regular turn, and has wired Detroit; he complains that Gleason kept him warming up in the bullpen for days without using him.",
"predicament": "Kept waiting in the wings without being used, a man announces he is quitting and has already approached a rival."
},
{
"chunk": 903,
"story": 22,
"summary": "At the party Keefe drank heavily, then went on to a speakeasy with two husbands, and came home sick from what he claims was something he ate.",
"predicament": "The night before he may be needed, a man drinks himself sick at a celebration, and blames what he ate."
},
{
"chunk": 904,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Feverish and sick, Keefe goes to the park expecting only to warm up, but Gleason tells him to start in place of an ailing pitcher and brushes off his complaint about his stomach.",
"predicament": "Sick from his own excess, a man is unexpectedly called on to perform, and his complaints get no sympathy."
},
{
"chunk": 905,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Dizzy, Keefe hits the first batter in the head, walks the next, and is hit hard, while Gleason pointedly ignores him and has nobody warming up.",
"predicament": "Struggling badly in public, a man looks to the person in charge for rescue, and is deliberately left to flounder."
},
{
"chunk": 906,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe walks off the field and quits, announcing he will pitch for Detroit; Gleason jeers that this will ruin Detroit, and Keefe wires Detroit's manager to hurry up with an offer.",
"predicament": "In the middle of a public failure, a man walks off the job and announces he is going to a rival."
},
{
"chunk": 907,
"story": 22,
"summary": "The club leaves without him and Gleason does not call to make peace; Keefe tells himself he will soon be with a club that needs him.",
"predicament": "Having walked out, a man waits for his old employer to beg him back, and hears nothing at all."
},
{
"chunk": 908,
"story": 22,
"summary": "No word comes from Detroit; Keefe imagines the managers haggling over him and guesses the trade will be him for a star outfielder, while his savings will last a couple of weeks.",
"predicament": "Waiting on a rival's offer that never comes, a man imagines himself being haggled over, while his savings run low."
},
{
"chunk": 909,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe announces he is off to join Connie Mack's last-place Athletics, praising Mack as a gentleman; he learned of it when his wife woke him sobbing that he had been traded, with $5,000, for Page.",
"predicament": "A man who expected to be fought over learns he has been handed off cheaply, and at once praises his new employer."
},
{
"chunk": 910,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Stunned, they first vow he will refuse to go, but with no jobs and under $200, they talk themselves into liking Philadelphia and its seaside, and his wife hopes to find work there.",
"predicament": "Dumped on the least desirable employer and nearly broke, a couple talk themselves into seeing it as good fortune."
},
{
"chunk": 911,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Keefe declares himself delighted, predicts the young team will win several pennants, and plans to ask to pitch against both his old club and Detroit to show them their mistake.",
"predicament": "Discarded by his old employer and snubbed by the rival he courted, a man vows to show them both their mistake."
}
]