[ { "chunk": 209, "story": 38, "summary": "At a mean station Mitchell asks the manager for any work, is refused, and asks for rations instead; told to kill a sheep and take a forequarter, he takes a hindquarter.", "predicament": "Asking a mean boss for work and getting none, a man settles for a handout and quietly helps himself to the better share." }, { "chunk": 210, "story": 38, "summary": "He keeps the lonely cook talking while the cook fills his bags generously and hands over cooked beef and cake; the cook and overseer decide he is a bit gone, but he is only a city man who has been around.", "predicament": "A man begging supplies keeps a lonely worker talking so pleasantly that he hands over far more than he meant to." } ]