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": 38,
"story": 5,
"summary": "The Pooters' twenty-year-old son Willie turns up unannounced from his bank post in the north, announces he now goes by his second name, Lupin, sneers 'Good old Bill' at the respected uncle he was named after, and helps himself to more port.",
"predicament": "A grown son arrives home unannounced, drops the name he was christened with, and sneers at the respectable relative it honoured."
},
{
"chunk": 39,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Carrie scolds her husband's 'Good old' but not her son's; Lupin says no clerk at the bank is a gentleman and the manager is a cad, lies in bed until nearly three on the holiday, then announces he has resigned.",
"predicament": "A grown son lies in bed past dinner, calls his employer a cad, and announces he has thrown up his post."
},
{
"chunk": 40,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Pooter orders Lupin to write withdrawing his resignation; Lupin laughs that he was sacked, and it emerges he was dismissed for lateness and lack of interest. Pooter dreams of getting him into his own firm, and they go to the seaside, where Lupin is fastidious about the lodgings.",
"predicament": "A father who orders his son to withdraw a resignation learns the son was in fact dismissed for idleness."
},
{
"chunk": 41,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Lupin slips off to a music-hall turn and Carrie defends him; meeting Gowing on the pier, Pooter changes the subject when asked whether Lupin has left the bank; Lupin refuses to walk the parade with his father in his straw helmet.",
"predicament": "A father dodges an old friend's awkward question about his son's dismissal, and the son is ashamed to be seen with him."
},
{
"chunk": 42,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Lupin mocks his parents' boat trip and goes off to play billiards with Gowing despite his father's disapproval; Carrie tells Pooter to stop treating Lupin as a child, so Pooter offers him a cigar, which Lupin dismisses as twopenny and replaces with a far stronger one.",
"predicament": "A father's disapproval of his grown son's habits is overruled by his wife, and his peace offering is laughed at."
},
{
"chunk": 43,
"story": 5,
"summary": "At the Cummingses' Gowing organises a silly lap-sitting game, then stands up so that everyone falls; Carrie hits her head on the fender and the party misses the last train, costing Pooter seven-and-six for a carriage.",
"predicament": "An old friend's boisterous prank at a party sends everyone tumbling, hurts the wife, and costs the husband an expensive ride home."
}
]