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": 12,
"summary": "An insulting anonymous Christmas card sets Pooter suspecting all his friends, the junior Pitt and the charwoman; Lupin laughs at it. At Christmas dinner with Carrie's mother Pooter proposes her health with a speech urging everyone to kiss and make up.",
"predicament": "A man receives an anonymous insult and finds himself suspecting every friend, colleague and servant he has."
},
{
"chunk": 80,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The old clergyman takes Pooter's speech as licence to kiss the ladies, and a young stranger, Moss, jumps up with mistletoe and kisses Carrie; Carrie brushes off Pooter's unease, saying he is only a boy, and a nice one.",
"predicament": "At a family gathering a forward young stranger kisses a man's wife under cover of a joke, and she makes light of it."
},
{
"chunk": 81,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Lupin asks his father to put off Gowing and Cummings because Daisy and Frank are coming; Carrie asks pointedly whether the old friends are not good enough for Daisy or Daisy not good enough for them, and Lupin gives way; Carrie plans to disguise the cut leg of mutton.",
"predicament": "A son asks his father to put off old friends so his intended can visit, and the mother asks who is not good enough."
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Lupin sneers at his father's friends' cheap clothes; at supper Daisy starts flicking bread, and a bread fight follows in which even Gowing and Cummings join; Gowing throws parsley in Pooter's face, and when he protests Frank turns out the gas.",
"predicament": "A host's supper descends into horseplay led by his son's set, and his own old friends join in pelting him."
},
{
"chunk": 83,
"story": 12,
"summary": "In the dark someone punches Pooter hard on the back of the head; he decides it was whoever sent the Christmas card, dreams it was Frank, and compares handwriting, until Carrie points out the card was addressed to Lupin, who says he often receives and sends such cards.",
"predicament": "A man struck in the dark at his supper suspects a young guest, then finds the insult he resented was never meant for him."
},
{
"chunk": 84,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Pooter confides the punch to Gowing as an old friend, and Gowing laughs that he hit something but thought it was a brick wall; Lupin boasts that he took Daisy's stingy father down a peg.",
"predicament": "A man confides a grievance to an old friend, who laughs that he did it himself and took the man's head for a wall."
},
{
"chunk": 85,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Mr Mutlar senior writes that he must decide who is master of his own house and forbids Lupin to enter it again, with sarcastic praise of his modesty; Pooter keeps the letter from Carrie and Lupin.",
"predicament": "A father receives a letter from his son's prospective father-in-law banning the son from his house, and keeps it to himself."
},
{
"chunk": 86,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Waiting for Lupin on New Year's Eve in a fog, Pooter and Carrie argue whether the new bottle is whisky or brandy and miss seeing the New Year in for the first time in their marriage; Lupin comes home at two, saying he got lost.",
"predicament": "A husband and wife waiting up for their absent son quarrel over nothing and miss the moment they always kept together."
}
]