[
 {
  "chunk": 38,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The narrator and his mate strike through the scrub to a tiny border town at the end of an unfinished government road, and camp there a day.",
  "predicament": "Two travellers on foot reach a miserable settlement at the end of an unfinished road and stop there for a day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 39,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The town is split by a rabbit-proof fence between two colonies, with the pubs on one side and the post office on the other, and nobody's account of it can be trusted.",
  "predicament": "Travellers stopping in a divided settlement find each half blaming its distant masters, and nobody able to say what is true."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 40,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The country round is a barren ash-heap, the river is dry, and the stores charge high prices for sour bread and poor sugar.",
  "predicament": "Travellers with little money must pay stiff prices for poor goods in a barren place with nowhere else to buy."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 41,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A storekeeper gives a deadbeat swagman rations to see him over the border, and an old shepherd spits over the fence on both colonies, and on the rest.",
  "predicament": "A penniless traveller is given enough to get him moving on, and an old hand shows what he thinks of every government going."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 42,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The old man had been offered droving at a pittance, finding his own horse, feed and supplies; a trooper checks on the travellers, and next morning they move on.",
  "predicament": "An old hand has been offered work on terms that put every cost and every risk on him, and sours on the whole country."
 }
]