[
 {
  "chunk": 150,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The narrator crosses the strait in an old rusty coastal steamer; without competition, fares are high and food is foul, and the passengers pilfer the fruit cargo to survive.",
  "predicament": "Travellers forced to pay high prices to the only company going are served bad food, and quietly help themselves to the cargo instead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 151,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "Fares are cheaper now, but the public will patronise the cheapest until the rival is starved out and prices rise again; the crews have grown used to the danger.",
  "predicament": "Customers chasing the cheapest price help starve out the competition, and then pay dearly once only one seller remains."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 152,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "Rushing for the wharf with little money, he pulls out his ticket to read the boat's name and loses his half-sovereign.",
  "predicament": "A traveller with almost nothing loses a good part of his money in the rush to catch his passage."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 153,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "He describes searching his pockets again and again for a lost coin and retracing every hurried farewell beer.",
  "predicament": "A man who has lost money he cannot spare searches himself again and again, retracing every drink he had on the way."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 154,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The lost coin haunts him for months; since part of it was owed to his last landlord, he feels the loss as a judgment and hopes it is enough.",
  "predicament": "A man who lost money he partly owed to someone else feels the loss as a judgment on him for not paying."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 155,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "He once found a lost coin in a pipe bowl months later; he leaves port hoping some poor devil found his, though he would rather have found it himself.",
  "predicament": "A man who lost money he could not spare hopes some poorer soul found it, though he would much rather have found it himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 156,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "A sailor calls the old boat safe, then says he could poke a stick through her anywhere; below, sick families lie in the stinking cabin while a young Maori plays a concertina.",
  "predicament": "A traveller is assured his worn-out transport is safe by a man who then admits it is rotten all the way through."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 157,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "Knocked back down the hatch by a wave, he drinks with the Maori, spending his last half-crown, and decides he will fall on his feet.",
  "predicament": "A worried traveller shares drinks with a friendly stranger, spends what little he has left, and decides not to care."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 158,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "Landing at Picton, he gloomily wires a friend in the North Island 'Wire quid; stumped', takes a room at a pub and writes the sketch as the candle dies.",
  "predicament": "Arriving broke among strangers, a traveller sends word to a friend far away asking for money to tide him over."
 }
]