[
 {
  "chunk": 6,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "A man leaves a good trade in the city to take up a selection, asks his sweetheart to wait, and starts fencing at a venture because the surveyors never come.",
  "predicament": "A man gives up a steady living in town to start out on land of his own, sure he can do better alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 7,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "With no experience and much bad advice he spends days digging round and trying to burn out the first great tree.",
  "predicament": "A beginner working alone takes on the hardest task first, armed with more advice from others than experience of his own."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 8,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The tree falls on the squatter's fence; he breaks ploughshares he cannot pay for, while the squatter's people rob him, burn his hut and have him charged with stock theft.",
  "predicament": "A small holder struggling to clear his ground finds a powerful neighbour set on driving him off by any means at all."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 9,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Flood washes away his crop and soil, the next crop rusts, and nursing his cows' eyes he goes half blind himself, nursed through it by a German neighbour.",
  "predicament": "Every effort a struggling beginner makes is undone by weather and sickness, and only one neighbour stands by him through it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 10,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Following local advice he doctors his sick cows and then his horses, and they all die.",
  "predicament": "A man who keeps acting on bad advice watches everything he owns die one after another, and still will not give up."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 11,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Ploughing with a borrowed broken-down horse and a hired child, he loses his temper, beats the cheeky boy and is set on by the boy's whole family.",
  "predicament": "A man worn raw by failure loses his temper with a neighbour's child and brings the neighbour's whole family down on himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 12,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He buys sheep to fatten, but the squatter's men set dogs on them and poison his dog; his nephew is jailed on a false charge and he gets six months for beating the squatter.",
  "predicament": "A small holder hounded by a powerful neighbour tries to hit back the same way, and it is he who ends up locked away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 13,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Out of jail, his wife robs him and runs off, hail ruins his orchard and a ruined neighbour shares wine with him; then the survey shows his land is elsewhere and the squatter seizes everything and sues.",
  "predicament": "A man ruined by one blow after another is comforted by a neighbour ruined alongside him, then loses the rest to a powerful man."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 14,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The selector ends in the asylum, and the ruined squatter follows him there, where the two become friends.",
  "predicament": "Two old enemies, both ruined in the end, meet on equal terms at last and find they can get on quite well."
 }
]