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": 54,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "On a poor selection the worn-out wife shrieks for her son to bring in the cows, and the boy milks sore-teated cows in a yard of slush, dosed with an ointment recommended by a man who knows nothing.",
+  "predicament": "A worn-out household scrapes a living from sick stock and slack habits, following advice from people who know even less."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 55,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "The boy milks carelessly, dozing against the cow, drowning dirt in the bucket and beating the animals when they kick.",
+  "predicament": "A bored youngster left with the daily drudgery cuts every corner he can, knowing nobody will ever check the work properly."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 56,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "His mother accuses him of skimping the milking and he denies it; the dairy of rotten bark is propped up and patched with newspaper.",
+  "predicament": "A mother suspects her son of skimping his work, he swears she is wrong, and the place they share keeps falling down."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 57,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "The wife skims dusty cream with her fingers and sets the milk through a strainer full of holes.",
+  "predicament": "A worn-out wife does the daily work with broken tools and dirty makeshifts that nobody has the time or will to mend."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 58,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "The boy is blamed for a missing prop and a lost cow and swears he is always blamed; he hand-feeds the weaned calves and beats them when they butt.",
+  "predicament": "A youngster blamed for every mishap on the place denies everything and takes his temper out on whatever is weaker than him."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 59,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "The selector spends three hours leaning on a fence with a neighbour discussing a cow, then fools about the stick-planted orchard and asks the neighbour to dinner.",
+  "predicament": "While the rest of the household labours, the man at its head idles the morning away with a neighbour, admiring what needs no work."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 60,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "At a scalding dinner on a hot day, with fowls in the house and steers in the wheat, the shiftless selector and his guests talk social reform.",
+  "predicament": "A man too shiftless to mend his own fences talks grandly over a meal about how the whole world ought to be put right."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 61,
+  "story": 9,
+  "summary": "The debate about utopian books and a notorious murderer runs on in fragments while the wife shoos fowls, scolds the children and sends a rooster flying.",
+  "predicament": "A gathering of talkers argues about reforming society while a harried wife keeps the home from falling apart around them."
+ }
+]