[
 {
  "chunk": 145,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "On a cold wet night some two hundred unemployed men sleep on the pavements of Sydney under shop verandas, sharing newspapers and rooting in rubbish bins.",
  "predicament": "Men with no work and nowhere to sleep huddle together on a cold pavement, scavenging for scraps before the day begins."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 146,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The police look at them as rubbish; the narrator contrasts dossing out in the city with camping in the bush, where a poor man can light a fire, wash and be left alone.",
  "predicament": "A man down and out in the city is treated as rubbish by the law, and longs for the freedom of being poor elsewhere."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 147,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "In the city the outcast cannot light a fire or wash, must cadge breakfast and walk in circles all day, and among well-dressed men he feels despised and criminal.",
  "predicament": "A man out of work among well-dressed crowds feels degraded and suspected, as if being poor were itself a crime."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 148,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The narrator recalls a night on the streets feeling like a felon; a small businessman left food scraps outside each night for a shadow, who turned out to be an old mate.",
  "predicament": "A man of small means leaves food out each night for a stranger, and finds it is an old mate fallen on hard times."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 149,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "On the quay after midnight an old man carefully folds his best trousers into a pillow, puts on his rags and sleeps.",
  "predicament": "An old man with almost nothing left guards his one good possession for a better day, sleeping on it in the cold."
 }
]