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": 79,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The son's selling costs came in within the limit only by decimals: he reached the tree ahead of the bull but is still stuck up it.",
"predicament": "Someone has barely scraped inside the limits set for them, which is both a relief and a precarious place to stay.",
"advice": []
},
{
"chunk": 80,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The son keeps skinning through instead of failing or succeeding outright; the father wants the second half of effort, full knowledge of the goods, belief in himself and total commitment.",
"predicament": "Someone doing just enough to avoid being dismissed must decide whether to put in the effort that actually brings results.",
"advice": [
{
"move": "do just enough work to keep from being dismissed",
"outcome": "you keep a half-way place on a half-way salary",
"quote": "you are bright enough to be a half-way man, and to hold a half-way place on a half-way salary by doing half the work you are capable of",
"stance": "avoid"
},
{
"move": "try with your whole effort, not half of it",
"outcome": "the second half of effort is what brings results",
"quote": "It looks to me as if you were trying only half as hard as you could, and in trying it's the second half that brings results.",
"stance": "do"
}
]
},
{
"chunk": 81,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Between trips the son should spend every spare minute learning the plant; knowledge beyond what the job needs buys a better job, and a seller needs to know the making.",
"predicament": "Someone who knows just enough of the business to hold their job must decide whether to learn the parts beyond it.",
"advice": [
{
"move": "learn more of the business than your own job requires",
"outcome": "it becomes the capital that buys you a better job",
"quote": "invests in more knowledge of the business than he has to have in order to hold his job has capital with which to buy a mortgage on a better one",
"stance": "do"
},
{
"move": "ask sensible questions",
"outcome": "nothing pays better",
"quote": "Nothing earns better interest than judicious questions",
"stance": "do"
}
]
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"story": 10,
"summary": "A smart buyer will show the son his own firm's lard as a rival's to make him run it down before a laughing audience; knowing his goods, he would have turned the joke and taken the order.",
"predicament": "A customer sets a trap to make an ill-informed seller look foolish in front of an audience.",
"advice": [
{
"move": "know your own goods well enough to recognise them anywhere",
"outcome": "you turn the trap round and take the order",
"quote": "And you'd have driven a spike right through that fellow's little joke and have nailed down his order hard and tight with the same blow.",
"stance": "do"
},
{
"move": "let a chance to learn a fact slip by",
"outcome": "you pay dearly before the next chance comes",
"quote": "if he misses the first opening he will lose a good deal of blood before he gets the second",
"stance": "avoid"
}
]
},
{
"chunk": 83,
"story": 10,
"summary": "A rail-thin village joker lived on tobacco and liked to scare the boys by pretending to be the devil.",
"predicament": "Someone known as the local joker lives on a habit the respectable people of the place all disapprove of.",
"advice": []
},
{
"chunk": 84,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The village preacher's religion allowed no compromises at all: no trading one vice for another, every habit had to go.",
"predicament": "Someone faces an authority who allows no bargaining at all, only complete surrender of every bad habit.",
"advice": []
},
{
"chunk": 85,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Lonely while the town was at the revival, the joker crept close, got converted, lost his tobacco and stuck to it for fear of being laughed at, then grew fat and kept retiring suits.",
"predicament": "Someone who has sworn off a habit in public sticks to it mostly for fear of being laughed at if they slip.",
"advice": []
},
{
"chunk": 86,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He saved fourteen outgrown suits to wear on the way down but never lost an ounce; you cannot count on coming back to something passed over, and thorough knowledge eventually wins the hardest buyer.",
"predicament": "Someone passes over a chance, sure they can come back for it later, and the chance never returns.",
"advice": [
{
"move": "pass something over, counting on coming back for it later",
"outcome": "the chance does not come again",
"quote": "a fellow can't bank on getting a chance to go back and take up a thing that he has passed over once",
"stance": "avoid"
},
{
"move": "know your own business thoroughly",
"outcome": "sooner or later you win a share of even the hardest customer's trade",
"quote": "will find an opportunity sooner or later of reaching the most hardened cuss of a buyer on his route and of getting a share of his",
"stance": "do"
}
]
},
{
"chunk": 87,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Like a juggler who keeps taking on more, a young man should not balk at extra work once he can handle the basics; the father wants the son to grow too big for the small trade.",
"predicament": "Someone managing adequately must decide whether to take on more than is asked and grow into a bigger role.",
"advice": [
{
"move": "keep taking on extra work cheerfully and learning beyond your post",
"outcome": "you grow so big that you force your promotion",
"quote": "I want to see you grow into a car-lot man--so strong and big that you will force us to see that you are out of place among the little fellows.",
"stance": "do"
}
]
}
]