[
 {
  "chunk": 268,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "An old swagman tells the narrator that most old bushmen have been reported dead at some time, and that he himself was better thought of by his friends when they believed him dead.",
  "predicament": "An old wanderer admits that his friends thought better of him while they believed him dead than they ever did alive."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 269,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "Billy Nowlett, a bullock-driver, was reported dead by a publican who sent the widow five pounds; she managed better without him, an old digger began courting her, and then Billy turned up.",
  "predicament": "A man reported dead turns up to find his wife managing better without him and a neighbour sitting by her fire."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 270,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "Billy had been confused with another driver; young Joe Swallow was buried and his ghost seen, until Joe turned up and people decided the ghost had been someone else's all along.",
  "predicament": "People who made up their minds about who died adjust their story rather than admit they were ever wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 271,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "A bushranger shot in a hold-up was identified by a tattoo as Brummy Usen, a sawmill hand; when the real Brummy turned up, the obstinate neighbours would not believe he was alive.",
  "predicament": "A man wrongly declared dead comes back, and nobody will believe he is who he says he is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 272,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "Only the publican's wife believed him; he could not collect the wages owed him or convince the police, so he went away to start again; the old swagman then shows the same tattoo on his own arm.",
  "predicament": "A man everyone insists is dead cannot even claim the wages he is owed, so he gives up his name and starts again."
 }
]