[
 {
  "chunk": 227,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The New Zealand steamer waits inside Sydney Heads to take on English immigrants, one of whom, a radical, complains that bankers rob widows unpunished while a poor man is transported for a shilling.",
  "predicament": "Travellers leaving to look for work meet a newcomer who complains that the rich rob freely while the poor are punished hard."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 228,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "After being told transportation is long over, the newcomer is unconvinced; passenger after passenger points to a different part of the cliff as the place of a famous wreck.",
  "predicament": "Everyone on a crowded passage repeats the same old local story, each man sure that he alone knows the right spot."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 229,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The narrator travels steerage with shearers, tradesmen, labourers and clerks driven from Australia by hard times; a bagman whose girl thought he was travelling saloon gives her flower to the stewardess.",
  "predicament": "Men driven abroad by hard times crowd the cheapest berths, and one has hidden from his sweetheart that he could not afford better."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 230,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "A well-known Sydney man spends his last shilling treating friends and waves from the saloon deck for the sake of proud female relatives, then comes forward to steerage, bitterly proud.",
  "predicament": "A man leaving home broke spends his last money keeping up appearances for proud relatives who come to see him off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 231,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The drunk shearers befriend a saloon dandy who makes a fool of himself; passengers buy sour beer from a reticent, failed-looking steward.",
  "predicament": "Rough travellers drink with a well-off stranger slumming it among them, and he makes a thorough fool of himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 232,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Men of better days undress furtively, ashamed of their poor underwear, while the drunk shearers and their friends keep up a noisy concert late into the night.",
  "predicament": "Men who have come down in the world hide their poverty from their neighbours in the cramped quarters of the cheapest berths."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 233,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The drinkers argue drunkenly about women voting and about working men in parliament, while another tries to finish a yarn in which he is the hero.",
  "predicament": "Men thrown together by hard times argue about who will really stand up for working people, while one keeps boasting."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 234,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "A quarrel over 'horny heads' is smoothed over with a flask; a shearer boasts of flooring the boss-over-the-board and two blacklegs until a voice begs him to give it a rest.",
  "predicament": "A man boasts to strangers of defying a boss and beating the men brought in against him, until someone tells him to stop."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 235,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The narrator describes the dim steerage: drunk shearers asleep with knuckles on the deck, two young Swiss emigrants with a dictionary, and a consumptive newcomer staring at nothing.",
  "predicament": "In the dim, cheap berths, drunken workers sleep it off beside young foreigners learning the language and a sick man staring at nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 236,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The consumptive newcomer is sick in the night; next morning the men idle about the deck, smoking, playing quoits and eyeing a huge log lashed by the hatch.",
  "predicament": "Men who sold up to seek work abroad kill the idle hours of the passage, with nothing to do but watch and wait."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 237,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "A bloated first-class Englishman comes forward to gawk at the steerage as if it were a zoo until the comedian silently points him aft; the men grumble about the food.",
  "predicament": "A well-off stranger comes to gawk at poor travellers like a sideshow, and one of them silently shows him the door."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 238,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "A shearer tops the complaints with a tall tale of meat so bad out west that it had to be chained up and shepherded by dogs; the Sydney man starts a dog yarn.",
  "predicament": "Men grumbling about poor food are topped by a veteran's tall tale of how much worse it was where he worked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 239,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The Sydney man's yarn falls flat, and a commercial traveller tells of a bag that knew its own way into pubs, until the steward turns off the light.",
  "predicament": "Strangers pass a dull night swapping ever taller tales, each trying to outdo the last, until the light goes out on them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 240,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Oranges vanish from the deck cargo; a shearer blames the saloon passengers, the comedian drops the narrator an orange, and no man dares complain about the peel lest he seem an informer.",
  "predicament": "When some of the group steal from the cargo, everyone shares the spoils and keeps quiet rather than be taken for an informer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 241,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Two jokers eat a stolen pineapple by an open porthole; next day the men argue it is no sin to rob a company that underfeeds them, feel mean when told a poor grower may bear the loss, and feel better when blamed on a middleman.",
  "predicament": "Men who helped themselves to someone else's goods argue it was no wrong, until one asks whether a poor man bears the loss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 242,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The women appear near the end, young wives with babies whose husbands go ahead to earn enough to send for them; nearing land the men face again the question of how to make a living.",
  "predicament": "Men who left their wives behind to go ahead and find work sight the new shore, and the fear of finding none returns."
 }
]