[
 {
  "chunk": 18,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Two broke swagmen reach the hotel of a huge, mean, violent publican and run up drinks they cannot pay for, trying to look as if they have just been paid off.",
  "predicament": "Two broke travellers run up a debt with a hard, dangerous man, trusting that they look as if they can pay."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 19,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Bill, who believes the world is sharps and mugs, gets the narrator to cadge ten shillings from a navvy and takes charge of it.",
  "predicament": "A companion who says a man must take or be taken asks his mate to trust him with the little money they have."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 20,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Next morning Bill has a black eye and eighteen pence; they quarrel over who must face the landlord and toss for it, and the narrator loses.",
  "predicament": "A mate seems to have lost the pair's last money, and the two argue over which of them must face the one they owe."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 21,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The narrator carries the swags out to the veranda, then lingers chatting with the publican and decides to take a big flask of whisky too.",
  "predicament": "Planning to slip away from a debt, a man chats easily with the one he owes and decides he may as well take more."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 22,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He wins a bet over the flask, notices the publican limping from a nail in his boot, and offers to fix it, claiming it was his old trade.",
  "predicament": "Keeping a dangerous creditor talking, a man spots a weakness and offers him a friendly favour that will quietly hobble him instead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 23,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He drives a nail up through the boot sole, asks what they owe, hears the threat of a beating, and bolts.",
  "predicament": "Having crippled the pursuit in advance, a man asks what he owes, hears the threat he expected, and runs for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 24,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The publican gives chase in a slipper and loses it in a waterhole; the two swagmen escape into the bush and stay out of sight.",
  "predicament": "Running from someone he cheated, a man outlasts him on rough ground and vanishes before a proper pursuit can be organised."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 25,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "In camp Bill boasts that he got them through; the narrator tears into him as a mug, and Bill quietly produces money he had all along.",
  "predicament": "Safe at last, a man berates his boastful mate for the mess, and the mate calmly shows he held money back all along."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 26,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Bill produces the rest of the money, explaining he let the narrator take the risk to pay out the publican, whom he had a grudge against; the narrator lies awake.",
  "predicament": "A man learns his mate let him carry all the risk of a trick the mate planned himself, and lies awake wondering about him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 27,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Bill shares out fairly, but the narrator parts from him soon after: he is too sharp to keep up with.",
  "predicament": "A mate who shared fairly still proves too sharp to travel beside, and the other quietly decides to go his own way."
 }
]