[
 {
  "chunk": 43,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Mitchell tells his mate how a farmer mocked his plain, hardworking daughter as unmarriageable, and how he laughed along and then felt sorry for her.",
  "predicament": "A young man laughs along when a father mocks a plain daughter as unwanted, then sees how badly it hurt her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 44,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Trying to comfort the girl, he offers to marry her and is refused; stung, he sets out to learn whether any girl would have him by asking an even plainer neighbour.",
  "predicament": "Turned down when he offered out of pity, a young man sets out to learn whether anyone would have him at all."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 45,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "He proposes to the second girl as a joke and she accepts at once, tells his family and the whole district, and he is mocked everywhere.",
  "predicament": "A joking proposal is taken seriously, and the whole neighbourhood hears of the match before the young man can take it back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 46,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "He sends a mate to say it was a joke and that he is already married, then flees to another town and moves again when warned she is coming; his mate begins a yarn about a youth pursued by an older woman.",
  "predicament": "A man who made a promise he never meant keeps running from it, and it keeps following him from place to place."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 47,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The pursued youth gives in without a struggle, marries the older woman, and is ordered about in front of the whole boardinghouse, though she makes him a good wife.",
  "predicament": "A young man caught by a woman he ran from gives in without a fight, and is ordered about in front of everyone."
 }
]