[
 {
  "chunk": 54,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "On a poor selection the worn-out wife shrieks for her son to bring in the cows, and the boy milks sore-teated cows in a yard of slush, dosed with an ointment recommended by a man who knows nothing.",
  "predicament": "A worn-out household scrapes a living from sick stock and slack habits, following advice from people who know even less."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 55,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The boy milks carelessly, dozing against the cow, drowning dirt in the bucket and beating the animals when they kick.",
  "predicament": "A bored youngster left with the daily drudgery cuts every corner he can, knowing nobody will ever check the work properly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 56,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "His mother accuses him of skimping the milking and he denies it; the dairy of rotten bark is propped up and patched with newspaper.",
  "predicament": "A mother suspects her son of skimping his work, he swears she is wrong, and the place they share keeps falling down."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The wife skims dusty cream with her fingers and sets the milk through a strainer full of holes.",
  "predicament": "A worn-out wife does the daily work with broken tools and dirty makeshifts that nobody has the time or will to mend."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The boy is blamed for a missing prop and a lost cow and swears he is always blamed; he hand-feeds the weaned calves and beats them when they butt.",
  "predicament": "A youngster blamed for every mishap on the place denies everything and takes his temper out on whatever is weaker than him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The selector spends three hours leaning on a fence with a neighbour discussing a cow, then fools about the stick-planted orchard and asks the neighbour to dinner.",
  "predicament": "While the rest of the household labours, the man at its head idles the morning away with a neighbour, admiring what needs no work."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "At a scalding dinner on a hot day, with fowls in the house and steers in the wheat, the shiftless selector and his guests talk social reform.",
  "predicament": "A man too shiftless to mend his own fences talks grandly over a meal about how the whole world ought to be put right."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The debate about utopian books and a notorious murderer runs on in fragments while the wife shoos fowls, scolds the children and sends a rooster flying.",
  "predicament": "A gathering of talkers argues about reforming society while a harried wife keeps the home from falling apart around them."
 }
]