[ { "chunk": 222, "story": 40, "summary": "The narrator and Mitchell reach water two hours after dark following a twenty-five-mile dry stretch on their third day out, too stiff to sit down.", "predicament": "Two mates reach water after a brutal day on foot, so worn out that even stopping to rest will hurt." }, { "chunk": 223, "story": 40, "summary": "Lying on their swags with tea and pipes, they curse society for not being rich, and Mitchell recalls starting to smoke at fifteen by minding an admired older youth's pipe.", "predicament": "Resting after a hard day, a man recalls copying an older youth he admired in a habit his family forbade." }, { "chunk": 224, "story": 40, "summary": "His mother caught him sick, took the pipe and returned it to its owner; she burned his next pipe and hid his tobacco, which his father seemed to have smoked.", "predicament": "A youngster caught at a forbidden habit blames the one who lent him the means, and keeps at it in secret anyway." }, { "chunk": 225, "story": 40, "summary": "He hid the bowl and stem of a cherry pipe separately, but she sniffed out the bowl; he switched to cigars, then a pipe again until she gave in; she has been dead seventeen years.", "predicament": "A youngster keeps dodging a parent over a forbidden habit until she gives up, and years later remembers her with regret." }, { "chunk": 226, "story": 40, "summary": "His father, kept on an allowance by his mother, livened up on learning of it and asked him for a fill; they had many quiet smokes together, and he has been dead twelve years.", "predicament": "A son finds that his father, kept on a tight allowance, is glad to share his forbidden habit behind the mother's back." } ]