[ { "chunk": 273, "story": 46, "summary": "Bogg, the town drunk regularly fined in the police court, once wandered into the newspaper office and corrected the editor's proofs, Latin and all.", "predicament": "The town drunk, fined and locked up as a matter of routine, shows a learning nobody expects by correcting his betters' work." }, { "chunk": 274, "story": 46, "summary": "A young doctor hears Bogg muttering in a bar and recognises a passage of Homer and a Dublin University song: he must once have been a classical scholar.", "predicament": "A newcomer recognises in the town drunk the ruins of an educated man, and wonders sadly what brought him so low." }, { "chunk": 275, "story": 46, "summary": "Sober, Bogg fossicks and splits palings, keeps his credit good and feeds any sundowner; larrikins come to play a ghost joke on him, but their leader sees him grieving over a letter, a portrait and a lock of hair.", "predicament": "Youths planning a cruel joke on a lonely drunk glimpse him grieving over old keepsakes, and their leader calls it off." }, { "chunk": 276, "story": 46, "summary": "The leader makes the gang leave Bogg alone; days later the paper reports him drowned in the river, apparently by his own hand, his sorrows unknown.", "predicament": "A bully shields a lonely man from his own gang, but the lonely man's private grief ends his life anyway." } ]