[ { "chunk": 65, "story": 11, "summary": "The narrator describes the cramped, greasy city dining rooms where he boards as a respectable single man, sharing a room with four others.", "predicament": "A single man living as cheaply as he can in the city shares cramped, grubby rooms with strangers who come and go." }, { "chunk": 66, "story": 11, "summary": "He meets Jack Gunther, a slight old-school bushman half deaf from a horse's kick, who has come to the city to get something done for his eyes.", "predicament": "A countryman who has come to the city for help with his failing health strikes up an acquaintance with a stranger there." }, { "chunk": 67, "story": 11, "summary": "Gunther is nearly blind, his sight made worse by a quack; a young cousin guides him, and he plans to send the boy home before the city corrupts him.", "predicament": "A man going blind leans on a young relative to guide him, yet plans to send the youngster home before the city spoils him." }, { "chunk": 68, "story": 11, "summary": "They talk about the bush and Gunther asks after a half-brother he has lost track of, seeing the home country clearly in his mind.", "predicament": "A man losing his sight asks after a brother he has lost touch with and pictures the country he may never see again." }, { "chunk": 69, "story": 11, "summary": "They talk fencing and timber; Gunther says the doctors can only promise slow improvement, and wishes he had seen one when his eyes first weakened.", "predicament": "A man whose health is failing regrets ignoring it when young, and pins his hopes on a slow cure that may not come." }, { "chunk": 70, "story": 11, "summary": "Always cheerful, he plans to sort wool by feel if the worst comes, and has the narrator describe his photographs and write to his girl.", "predicament": "A man facing disability plans cheerfully how he can still be useful back home, and asks a friend to write to his sweetheart." }, { "chunk": 71, "story": 11, "summary": "He gives up the hospital, waits anxiously for a letter, is moved onto the stair landing by the landlord, and practises a cheap concertina in case he has to busk.", "predicament": "A man running out of money and hope is shoved into the worst corner of his lodging and quietly prepares to beg." }, { "chunk": 72, "story": 11, "summary": "The narrator sets out to find someone with influence to help, then remembers his own worn-out clothes and unpaid board and goes no further.", "predicament": "A man who wants to help a friend in trouble realises he is too poor and shabby to go where help could be found." }, { "chunk": 73, "story": 11, "summary": "Gunther's half-brother turns up, suspicious of everyone, and takes charge of him with rough tenderness, settling the bill and carrying him off; the narrator knows he is all right.", "predicament": "A lost brother turns up just in time, fiercely protective, and takes charge of a helpless relative in a place full of sharps." } ]