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": 87,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Summoned without warning by Mr Perkupp, Pooter waits twenty minutes fearing the worst, then is told that a senior clerk is retiring and that after nearly twenty-one years he is to have a special promotion and a considerable rise.",
"predicament": "A long-serving man summoned by his employer fears the worst, and is told instead that his loyal years will be rewarded."
},
{
"chunk": 88,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Perkupp hurries off before Pooter can thank him; Carrie at once plans a chimney-glass and Pooter a new costume for her. Next day, in suspense, Pooter goes to ask about it and Perkupp has half forgotten and puts him off.",
"predicament": "A man promised a reward at work waits in suspense, and when he finally goes to ask, the employer has half forgotten."
},
{
"chunk": 89,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Lupin urges a share tip on his father, who answers with a pun about 'par' and 'pa' and repeats it for his son's benefit; Lupin calls him 'Joe Miller'. Pooter learns he is to be a senior clerk, and at last raises Mr Mutlar's letter with Lupin.",
"predicament": "A father repeats his little joke so that his grown son will laugh, and the son answers him with a sneer."
},
{
"chunk": 90,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Lupin calls Mutlar a blithering idiot and says Daisy will wait ten years. Perkupp tells Pooter his salary will rise by £100, far beyond the usual £10; Pooter sends for champagne and announces to Lupin that twenty-one years' industry has been rewarded.",
"predicament": "A man given a large rise after long, loyal service celebrates at home and tells his son how steady industry is rewarded."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Lupin toasts that, having paid no attention to his superiors' interests for a few weeks, he has made £200 in a day on a share tip from his employer; he then hires a pony-trap, tells his father he is out of date, and reckons his future income at £1,250 a year.",
"predicament": "A father's reward for long years of steady work is outshone the same evening by his son's windfall from speculation."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Lupin promises to follow only his employer's tips; Gowing, having made £10 on one, invites the Pooters and Cummingses round. Pooter rebukes the servant for shaking crumbs on the carpet and runny eggs; she retorts that he is always complaining and cries, and he escapes to his bus.",
"predicament": "A master rebukes a servant for small carelessness, and she answers that he is always complaining and bursts into tears."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"story": 13,
"summary": "A new chimney-glass is hung. Cummings appears after weeks away, having been seriously ill, and complains bitterly that no one came near him or asked after him, though it was in the cycling paper, and that illness shows who one's true friends are.",
"predicament": "A man is reproached by an old friend who was seriously ill and says none of his friends came near him or asked."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Gowing slaps the invalid Cummings on the back and jeers that he looks it, then invites them all round; when the Pooters arrive at his lodgings nobody expects them, a man in shirt-sleeves shuts the door on them, and Pooter spoils his gloves on fresh paint.",
"predicament": "Guests arrive at an old friend's home as invited, find nobody expecting them, and are left on the doorstep by a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"story": 13,
"summary": "The man abuses Pooter for scratching his paint and says Gowing has gone away to Croydon for the weekend; the lame Cummings arrives too, hears it, and strikes the ground with his stick, calling Gowing a scoundrel.",
"predicament": "An old friend who invited people round has gone off to a better invitation without a word, leaving them abused on his doorstep."
}
]