[
 {"chunk": 110, "story": 8, "summary": "A skilled but drunken craftsman drives his sick old wife twenty miles through a blizzard to the hospital, lashing his feeble horse.", "predicament": "A man who has neglected his spouse for years rushes her through a storm for help, afraid it is already too late."},
 {"chunk": 111, "story": 8, "summary": "He mutters to his wife that the doctor will scold him for coming late but will do his best, rehearsing the telling-off he expects.", "predicament": "A man desperate for help from someone above him rehearses the scolding he expects to get for asking too late."},
 {"chunk": 112, "story": 8, "summary": "He rehearses grovelling and protesting to the doctor, promising to make him fine things for free, and boasts he knows how to handle the gentry.", "predicament": "A humble man plans to flatter and grovel before someone powerful, promising favours to win help for a loved one."},
 {"chunk": 113, "story": 8, "summary": "The chatter hides his shock: after a lifetime of drunken indifference, his wife looked at him sternly as she never had before, and sorrow has woken him.", "predicament": "A man who drifted through years of marriage without feeling is jolted awake when his spouse looks at him as never before."},
 {"chunk": 114, "story": 8, "summary": "He begs her to deny to the doctor that he beat her and promises never to again; her face turns waxen, and he feels her cold hand and realises she is dead.", "predicament": "A man who mistreated his spouse promises to change, and realises too late that she can no longer hear him."},
 {"chunk": 115, "story": 8, "summary": "He cries, more annoyed than sorry that she died just as he began to pity her; forty years passed in a fog of drink and quarrels, and he turns the sledge back toward home.", "predicament": "A man grieving a spouse is tormented that she died just as he finally felt sorry for how he treated her."},
 {"chunk": 116, "story": 8, "summary": "He remembers her young and merry, sees he has been drunk since the wedding, longs to live it over again, and loses hold of the reins as his hands freeze.", "predicament": "A man who wasted a whole marriage in drink longs for one more chance to live it over properly."},
 {"chunk": 117, "story": 8, "summary": "He dozes in the snow and wakes in hospital; the doctor tells him his frozen limbs are gone and he has lived long enough, and he begs for five more years to bury his wife and return the horse.", "predicament": "A man who has run out of time begs for a few more years to put right the duties he left undone."}
]