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": 0,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "The narrator remembers how an old mate of his father's from the diggings would turn up at the selection, praise the children, slip them coins and tell stories of the old days.",
+  "predicament": "An old companion from a parent's hard early years turns up, and the household makes room for a past it never shared."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 1,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "The two old mates walk among the abandoned shafts, pick over past mistakes and plan a new shaft the father will never sink.",
+  "predicament": "Two old companions walk over the ground of a venture that failed them and plan a fresh try neither will ever make."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 2,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "The father's heart is not in his poor farm but in the old rushes, and the two yarn about lost claims until the children call them to breakfast.",
+  "predicament": "A man stuck with a poor living keeps his mind on the lost chances of his youth, egged on by an old companion."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 3,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "In the evenings the mates yarn about old friends and talk low about the Eureka Stockade, while the father explains away his scars to the children.",
+  "predicament": "Two old companions share a dangerous past they will not explain, and turn aside every question the children ask about it."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 4,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "The mother overhears a hint about a woman and the father brushes it off with the mate's help; the mate tells the story of a diggings bride.",
+  "predicament": "A wife overhears a hint of her husband's past with another woman, and his old companion helps him brush it aside."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 5,
+  "story": 0,
+  "summary": "The mates recall the generous fellowship of the old fields; after the visitor leaves the father broods, and the narrator wonders whether old mates were kinder to each other than sons are to fathers.",
+  "predicament": "After an old companion leaves, a man broods on their shared past, and his grown child wonders whether he gives what he owes."
+ }
+]