[ { "chunk": 95, "story": 16, "summary": "From the train the narrator sketches the western railway towns: a pub, a store in its shadow, a failed rival shop and a sundowner on the veranda.", "predicament": "A traveller passes one poor settlement after another, where nothing lasts but a place to drink and one dear place to buy." }, { "chunk": 96, "story": 16, "summary": "Bushmen with crape on their hats board the train; a ragged sundowner drops his swag and runs at the train, but is only killing a snake.", "predicament": "A traveller sizing up the people along the way sees a ragged wanderer drop everything to kill a danger by the road." }, { "chunk": 97, "story": 16, "summary": "The country past Nevertire is parched; shearers watch the train with an independent air, and an unemployed man sent with a labour bureau letter finds his job is a hundred miles off.", "predicament": "A man out of work is sent after a place that turns out to be days away on foot, with nothing to eat." }, { "chunk": 98, "story": 16, "summary": "A bush liar boasts of lost money, telegrams offering him work anywhere and a boss he thrashed, until a quiet bushman in the corner takes him down.", "predicament": "A loudmouth boasts of the offers pouring in and the bosses he has thrashed, until a quiet man in the corner takes him down." } ]