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": 118,
+  "story": 18,
+  "summary": "An old schoolfellow, Teddy Finsworth, hails Pooter in the street, boasts that his provincial post is grander than any in London, and presses the Pooters to Sunday dinner at his well-to-do uncle's; Carrie is reluctant but they accept and cancel their own joint.",
+  "predicament": "A man is hailed by an old schoolfellow who boasts of his own importance and presses him to dine with grander relations."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 119,
+  "story": 18,
+  "summary": "They arrive hot and late and the collie muddies Carrie's new skirt; the uncle shows off pictures bought cheap that he has been told are valuable, and Pooter remarks that the face in a crayon portrait looks pinched, to learn it was drawn after death of the host's sister-in-law.",
+  "predicament": "A guest in a grander house criticises a portrait to his host and learns that it shows the host's dead relative."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 120,
+  "story": 18,
+  "summary": "Pooter then jokes about a jolly portrait, which is of the host's dead brother; he makes a pun on the name of a late guest, Mr Short, repeating it twice with a little laugh, and nobody sees it; Short proves coarse, and the hostess says he is 'privileged'.",
+  "predicament": "A guest makes a pun on a stranger's name, repeats it twice with a little laugh, and nobody at all sees the joke."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 121,
+  "story": 18,
+  "summary": "Under the table one dog snaps at Pooter's boots and another licks all the blacking off them, which the hostess says it always does to visitors; port on beer makes him sleepy, his school reminiscences send everyone to sleep, and people giggle at his dull boots on the way home.",
+  "predicament": "A guest in a grander house is harassed by the family's pets, and the hostess says they always do that to visitors."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 122,
+  "story": 18,
+  "summary": "Pooter tells Lupin, Gowing, Cummings and Carrie about a vivid dream of burning ice; Lupin calls it rot, Gowing says nothing is duller than other people's dreams, Cummings agrees, Carrie says he tells her one every morning, and they all roar; he vows never to tell another.",
+  "predicament": "A man who tells his family and old friends about a vivid dream is snubbed by every one of them at once."
+ }
+]