[
 {
  "chunk": 302,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Ten mates gather on the wharf to see off their first mate, a carpenter who can get no regular work or fair wages in Sydney, leaving his wife with her people and four pounds ten.",
  "predicament": "A skilled worker who can find no steady work at home must leave his wife behind and go abroad to try again."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 303,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "He is the first of the old mountain push of building tradesmen to go; they have shared good times and lean ones and famous fortnightly sprees on country jobs.",
  "predicament": "A band of workmates who shared good times and lean ones gather to see off the first of them forced to leave."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 304,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Bound by work, poverty and drink, they slip tobacco, books and flasks into his bunk and pockets, and pool what money they have for more.",
  "predicament": "Mates with very little money pool what they have to send one of their own off with small tokens of friendship."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 305,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "They fuss over his bunk, drag him ashore for drink after drink, and grip his hand over the rail as the steamer casts off, singing and cheering till a sergeant of police watches them.",
  "predicament": "Workmates seeing one of their own off stretch the parting with one more drink after another until the very last moment."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 306,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "The policeman joins in the singing; the first mate has since prospered in New Zealand; another left secretly to escape debt, dishonour and a drunken wife, and others followed.",
  "predicament": "One by one the old crew leave, one to prosper far away, another fleeing debt and shame, and the rest see each one off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 307,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Jack, the narrator's closest mate, left today, and the narrator thinks it is time he raised his own fare and followed the others.",
  "predicament": "As the last of his old mates leaves, a man left behind decides it is time he followed them too."
 }
]