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": 112,
"story": 21,
"summary": "The narrator praises the custom of mates remailing newspapers to each other; Bill reads his paper through, and others in the camp ask to have it after him.",
"predicament": "A man who looks forward to one small pleasure must share it round the others before he can pass it to an absent friend."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"story": 21,
"summary": "The paper passes round with grumbling and accusation, and when Bill gets it back he hides it away to send to his old mate Jim.",
"predicament": "A man lends out something he treasures, has to fight to get it back, and keeps it safe for a friend far away."
},
{
"chunk": 114,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Bill clumsily folds, ties and addresses the paper, finding his old mate's formal name strange to write.",
"predicament": "A man goes to awkward trouble over a small gift for an old mate, finding even his friend's formal name strange to him."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Far away, Jim strolls to the post office on mail night hoping for a paper from Bill; old mates like these seldom write.",
"predicament": "A man far away goes looking for word from an old mate, though the two of them hardly ever write to each other."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Bill marks articles that support his side of an old argument and sends them on; Jim answers in kind, or they send a good joke or notice of an old mate's death.",
"predicament": "Two old mates far apart keep an old argument going by post, each sending the other proof he was right all along."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Both men once courted the same girl, who married another; Bill sends Jim the notice of her twins' birth with a chuckle, and each sits brooding over the old pain.",
"predicament": "Two old friends who lost the same sweetheart to another man reopen the old hurt, half as a joke and half in earnest."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 21,
"summary": "The narrator says he would sooner see his own work marked with crosses in a mate's remailed paper than praised by critics.",
"predicament": "Someone whose work is judged by others decides a friend's rough mark of approval means more to him than any official praise."
}
]