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": 78,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The narrator describes the bare slab hut where thirty shearers and rouseabouts eat and sleep in season, left littered with rubbish when the shed last cut out.",
+  "predicament": "Men between jobs shelter in the bare quarters a work gang left behind in a rush when the last season's work was done."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 79,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "He describes the brush shearing shed and glaring iron wool-shed of a station owned by a company, owned by a bank, owned mostly from England.",
+  "predicament": "Men between jobs look over the rough workplace of a distant owner, himself owned by others further off, who never sets foot there."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 80,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Half a dozen travellers spell in the hut on New Year's Eve, hoping to shear a few stragglers but mostly tramping for rations to live till next shearing.",
+  "predicament": "Men with no work must keep walking from one handout to the next just to live until the season's work comes round again."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 81,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "One of them, the Exception, is an outcast even among these men, in a boot and a slipper found in rubbish, who has stopped mending his clothes.",
+  "predicament": "Among men already down on their luck, one has sunk so far that he has stopped trying to mend anything at all."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 82,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "A sick young newcomer lies in a bunk while the others rest and read scraps; now and then a man goes to the station for flour when the manager is likely to be out.",
+  "predicament": "Men waiting out the slack time shelter together, time their begging for when the boss is away, and watch over a sick newcomer."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 83,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "A big Irish shearer invites the Exception to eat, but he can barely manage it; the men chaff the one who volunteered to bake bread for them all.",
+  "predicament": "Hungry men between jobs share what food they have with the worst off, and tease the one who offers to feed them all."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 84,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The sick man goes to the station for medicine and rations; the rest sound each other out about the union, curse the squatter and swap lies about outwitting bosses.",
+  "predicament": "Men between jobs sound each other out about which side each one is on, then swap boasts about getting the better of the bosses."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 85,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Pat cannot decide whether a pair of trousers found in the scrub are worth carrying, and the men make tea by feel in the dark with no firewood left.",
+  "predicament": "A man who owns almost nothing must decide whether a castoff he found is worth carrying, when every ounce on his back counts."
+ }
+]