[ { "chunk": 201, "story": 36, "summary": "From a train in heavy rain beyond Bourke the narrator sees dismal flooded plains, a swagman's camp and a platform of patient, damp townsfolk.", "predicament": "A traveller passing through a drowned, dismal country sees the camps of men with nowhere else to be." }, { "chunk": 202, "story": 36, "summary": "He sees a swagman trudging hopelessly through the mud with a dingo at his heels, a hawker's sorry turnout and a teamster's camp.", "predicament": "A traveller glimpses a lone man trudging through the mud with no hope in his face, going nowhere in particular." }, { "chunk": 203, "story": 36, "summary": "At shanties on a mud flat, forlorn horses wait outside a pub, and three drovers bring a small flock in across the flat, bound for the shanty once the sheep are yarded.", "predicament": "Men at the end of a long, wet day's work bring the stock in and head straight for the only warm place: drink." }, { "chunk": 204, "story": 36, "summary": "The narrator is travelling on a drover's pass in charge of cattle trucks, obtained after two humiliating weeks besieging local influence to escape the bush; the note of introduction says 'send this beggar on'.", "predicament": "To get out of a place with no work, a man must beg a favour from someone with influence and swallow every humiliation." }, { "chunk": 205, "story": 36, "summary": "He spends a freezing night in an ancient van while bushmen open the windows at every stop, and the weather clears for the cities.", "predicament": "A man who begged his way out of a hard country endures a cold, wretched night on the road back." } ]