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": 293,
+  "story": 49,
+  "summary": "Drinkers in a shanty run down Macquarie, an absent shearer, as a loafer and a liar; an old ruined drunk called Awful Example rises to say Macquarie was his mate.",
+  "predicament": "When a crowd runs down an absent man, a broken old drunk who was once his mate stands up to defend him."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 294,
+  "story": 49,
+  "summary": "The old man denies each charge and says Macquarie never talked about any man behind his back, and the room falls into an uneasy silence.",
+  "predicament": "An old man shames a crowd of gossips by saying that the absent man never spoke ill of anyone behind his back."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 295,
+  "story": 49,
+  "summary": "Barcoo says Macquarie was a bully who smashed smaller men; the old man says Macquarie is dead, and the drinkers shuffle and find reasons to go outside; a gaunt stranger rides up to the back.",
+  "predicament": "Told that the man they slandered is dead, a crowd of gossips shift uncomfortably and find excuses to be somewhere else."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 296,
+  "story": 49,
+  "summary": "Sally Thompson argues there is too much sentiment about the dead and justice is owed to the living; Barcoo calls Macquarie a spieler, and the old man says he has one more point.",
+  "predicament": "The gossips rally round a reason for speaking ill of the dead, and the old man stubbornly insists on having his say."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 297,
+  "story": 49,
+  "summary": "The old man shouts that Macquarie's mate is alive and squares up to fight Barcoo; the stranger pins him from behind and says 'It's Macquarie, old mate', and Barcoo rides off.",
+  "predicament": "A broken old man squares up to fight for an absent mate's name, and the mate himself walks in to stand beside him."
+ }
+]