[
 {
  "chunk": 48,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "On a coach in New Zealand a grey-bearded Australian-born man calls the poorest local country grand and Australia a mongrel desert.",
  "predicament": "A man who left his homeland long ago runs it down to strangers who expected him to speak up for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 49,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "He says he left Australia twice, swearing never to return, and scorns the suggestion that he visit Sydney on his way back to America.",
  "predicament": "An exile passing close to his old home swears he will never go back, and scorns anyone who suggests a visit."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 50,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "He rails that he starved and worked harder for less at home than anywhere else, and that the country belongs to foreign speculators.",
  "predicament": "A man who was starved and overworked in his own country declares loyalty only to the place that treated him fairly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 51,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "He attacks patriotism as a lie that makes men slave and fight for their masters, silencing the bagman, then asks about a grove of trees.",
  "predicament": "A man who was used up by the people who owned his country argues that loyalty to it only serves those masters."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 52,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "He smells gum leaves burning in a trapper's fire, recognises Australian gums, and shouts a greeting to the trapper, who answers him like an echo from the past.",
  "predicament": "A hardened exile is caught off guard by a familiar smell from home, and an old-fashioned greeting between equals moves him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 53,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "After a long silence he snaps at a tourist who sneers at Australia, and decides to visit an old mate in Sydney first.",
  "predicament": "An exile who swore never to go home hears an outsider sneer at it, defends it, and decides to visit an old friend."
 }
]