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   "name": "An old mate down on his luck leans on you",
   "predicament": "An old mate from harder days has turned up broke and expects you to carry him, and he will not take a hint.",
   "sentence": "A settled person wants to help without being bled dry from an old mate down on his luck.",
   "actor": "settled person",
   "wants": "to help without being bled dry",
   "counterpart": "an old mate down on his luck",
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    19,
    23,
    27,
    28,
    30
   ],
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    "Steelman",
    "Shooting the Moon",
    "“Dossing Out” and “Camping”",
    "Across the Straits",
    "Steelman’s Pupil"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 3,
    "low": 4
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 105,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "An old companion from wilder days turns up at a settled man's home, invites himself to stay, and cannot be made to leave."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 106,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A settled man tries to ease out an old friend who has overstayed, blaming his wife's family because he cannot say it straight."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 107,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A man trying to tell an old friend to go loses his nerve, and ends up begging him to stay and buying his beer."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 122,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "A man down to his last possessions waits for an old mate to send money, with nothing else between him and despair."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 148,
     "story": 27,
     "predicament": "A man of small means leaves food out each night for a stranger, and finds it is an old mate fallen on hard times."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 158,
     "story": 28,
     "predicament": "Arriving broke among strangers, a traveller sends word to a friend far away asking for money to tide him over."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 176,
     "story": 30,
     "predicament": "The pupil's trick succeeds, and later, when his old mentor has done well, he turns up broke expecting to be looked after."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Take him in, for old times' sake.",
     "source": "scene:105",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.family": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Invent an excuse to ease him out.",
     "source": "scene:106",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.mate": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give him something, if only to be rid of him.",
     "source": "scene:177",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.mate": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell him straight that he has to go.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "relationships.mate": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Leave food out for him and say nothing.",
     "source": "scene:148",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G02",
   "name": "Standing by a mate nobody else will",
   "predicament": "A mate of yours has let himself and others down, everyone else has written him off, and standing by him will cost you.",
   "sentence": "A loyal mate wants to keep faith with him from the crowd that has written him off.",
   "actor": "loyal mate",
   "wants": "to keep faith with him",
   "counterpart": "the crowd that has written him off",
   "stories": [
    10,
    39,
    49
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "That There Dog o’ Mine",
    "The Bush Undertaker",
    "Macquarie’s Mate"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 9
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 62,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "Badly hurt and needing help, a man is told he may have it only if he turns away the companion who stood by him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 63,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man refuses help that means abandoning a loyal companion, remembering how he once could not bear to leave one behind."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 64,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man tells those in charge that his loyal companion is worth more than he is, and will not desert him now."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 214,
     "story": 39,
     "predicament": "A man finds that an old mate who could never stay off the drink has finally drunk himself to death, alone."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 215,
     "story": 39,
     "predicament": "A man with almost nothing gives up part of what little he owns to carry home the body of an old mate decently."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 293,
     "story": 49,
     "predicament": "When a crowd runs down an absent man, a broken old drunk who was once his mate stands up to defend him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 294,
     "story": 49,
     "predicament": "An old man shames a crowd of gossips by saying that the absent man never spoke ill of anyone behind his back."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 295,
     "story": 49,
     "predicament": "Told that the man they slandered is dead, a crowd of gossips shift uncomfortably and find excuses to be somewhere else."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 297,
     "story": 49,
     "predicament": "A broken old man squares up to fight for an absent mate's name, and the mate himself walks in to stand beside him."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Speak up for him, and fight if it comes to that.",
     "source": "scene:297",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "relationships.crowd": "-",
      "flags.fought_for_mate": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Remind them he never ran anyone down behind their back.",
     "source": "scene:294",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.crowd": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Refuse any help that means leaving him behind.",
     "source": "scene:63",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "grit": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Carry him yourself, whatever it costs you.",
     "source": "scene:215",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your head down and let them talk.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "-",
      "relationships.crowd": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G03",
   "name": "A mate always one move ahead of you",
   "predicament": "Your mate is sharper than you, keeps you in the dark, and leaves you carrying the risk while he comes out ahead.",
   "sentence": "A the slower mate wants a fair share and fair treatment from a sharp mate.",
   "actor": "the slower mate",
   "wants": "a fair share and fair treatment",
   "counterpart": "a sharp mate",
   "stories": [
    3,
    19,
    30
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Stiffner and Jim",
    "Steelman",
    "Steelman’s Pupil"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7,
    "middle": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 19,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A companion who says a man must take or be taken asks his mate to trust him with the little money they have."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 20,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A mate seems to have lost the pair's last money, and the two argue over which of them must face the one they owe."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 25,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Safe at last, a man berates his boastful mate for the mess, and the mate calmly shows he held money back all along."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 26,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man learns his mate let him carry all the risk of a trick the mate planned himself, and lies awake wondering about him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 108,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A man who finally tries to throw out an overstaying old friend is beaten, then lectured by him on how to treat a guest."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 172,
     "story": 30,
     "predicament": "A hard, sharp companion takes a weaker one under his wing to teach him the game, and punishes every failure."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 173,
     "story": 30,
     "predicament": "A domineering companion scorns his pupil as a born fool, then offers to set up the whole scheme for him himself."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 177,
     "story": 30,
     "predicament": "A man who prospered lectures a broke old companion for failing him, helps him grudgingly, and soon finds himself leaned on again."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell him off to his face.",
     "source": "scene:25",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Do as he says and learn his game.",
     "source": "scene:174",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "flags.learned_the_game": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Part company when the chance comes.",
     "source": "scene:27",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "-",
      "flags.moved_on": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Stand up to him with your fists.",
     "source": "scene:108",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "relationships.mate": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your own money where he cannot get at it.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "nous": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G04",
   "name": "Keeping an old mateship alive",
   "predicament": "An old mate from the hard years is far away or only passing through, and keeping the tie alive takes effort.",
   "sentence": "A old mate wants to keep the old tie alive from a mate from the old days.",
   "actor": "old mate",
   "wants": "to keep the old tie alive",
   "counterpart": "a mate from the old days",
   "stories": [
    0,
    21,
    51
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "An Old Mate of Your Father’s",
    "Remailed",
    "For Auld Lang Syne"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 6
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 0,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "An old companion from a parent's hard early years turns up, and the household makes room for a past it never shared."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 3,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "Two old companions share a dangerous past they will not explain, and turn aside every question the children ask about it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 113,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A man lends out something he treasures, has to fight to get it back, and keeps it safe for a friend far away."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 114,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A man goes to awkward trouble over a small gift for an old mate, finding even his friend's formal name strange to him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 115,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A man far away goes looking for word from an old mate, though the two of them hardly ever write to each other."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 304,
     "story": 51,
     "predicament": "Mates with very little money pool what they have to send one of their own off with small tokens of friendship."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Go to trouble over a small token for him.",
     "source": "scene:114",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make him welcome and let the old days talk.",
     "source": "scene:0",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep what the two of you shared from your family.",
     "source": "scene:3",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-",
      "flags.shared_secret": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let it lapse; you both have lives now.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G05",
   "name": "Someone worse off than you",
   "predicament": "Someone even worse off than you is right in front of you, and you have only a little to spare.",
   "sentence": "A person barely getting by wants to do right without going short from someone worse off.",
   "actor": "person barely getting by",
   "wants": "to do right without going short",
   "counterpart": "someone worse off",
   "stories": [
    1,
    6,
    13,
    37,
    44
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Settling on the Land",
    "Hungerford",
    "Stragglers",
    "“Rats”",
    "Jones’s Alley"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 6
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 9,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "Every effort a struggling beginner makes is undone by weather and sickness, and only one neighbour stands by him through it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 41,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A penniless traveller is given enough to get him moving on, and an old hand shows what he thinks of every government going."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 83,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Hungry men between jobs share what food they have with the worst off, and tease the one who offers to feed them all."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 207,
     "story": 37,
     "predicament": "Travellers who meet a harmless old man gone strange from loneliness choose to humour his delusion rather than mock him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 208,
     "story": 37,
     "predicament": "Before moving on, a traveller quietly gives what money and food he can spare to a lonely old man who has lost his wits."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 265,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A band of rough youngsters turns out at night to help a woman in trouble, eager to lend a hand for nothing."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Share what you have.",
     "source": "scene:83",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.mates": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give enough to see them on their way.",
     "source": "scene:41",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.stranger": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Humour them kindly and leave a little behind.",
     "source": "scene:208",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.stranger": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Lend your hands and your time instead of money.",
     "source": "scene:265",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "relationships.stranger": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Walk on; you can barely keep yourself.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G06",
   "name": "The one the crew picks on",
   "predicament": "The crew has picked one of its own as the butt of every joke, and the next one is being planned with you in it.",
   "sentence": "A crew member wants to fit in without being cruel from the butt, and the rest of the crew.",
   "actor": "crew member",
   "wants": "to fit in without being cruel",
   "counterpart": "the butt, and the rest of the crew",
   "stories": [
    25,
    26,
    42,
    46
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "An Echo from the Old Bark School",
    "The Shearing of the Cook’s Dog",
    "The Story of Malachi",
    "Bogg of Geebung"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 9
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 139,
     "story": 25,
     "predicament": "When a respectful silence is asked for, a slow child blunders a second time, and a classmate punishes him for it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 141,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "A rough crowd plays a cruel joke on an old man's pet for fun, and he confronts all of them over the evening meal."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 143,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "An overworked old man complains that the crew he slaves for have no respect for him, and the culprit cannot keep a straight face."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 144,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "A crew that went too far with a joke grows sorry, then resentful, until they learn what really stung the one they mocked."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 243,
     "story": 42,
     "predicament": "A simple, shabby workmate becomes the whole crew's butt, and never protests beyond a mild word or two."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 244,
     "story": 42,
     "predicament": "A crew's jokes on a slow, trusting workmate grow crueller, playing on everything he fears or dislikes."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 245,
     "story": 42,
     "predicament": "The crew persuades a trusting workmate that a visiting stranger means him harm, and watches his fear grow."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 247,
     "story": 42,
     "predicament": "A frightened man bursts out of the trap the crew set for him, and the jokers laugh at him until they ache."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 275,
     "story": 46,
     "predicament": "Youths planning a cruel joke on a lonely drunk glimpse him grieving over old keepsakes, and their leader calls it off."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Join in the joke.",
     "source": "scene:141",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.crew": "+",
      "relationships.butt": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Call it off before it goes too far.",
     "source": "scene:275",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.butt": "+",
      "relationships.crew": "risk",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep a straight face and deny everything.",
     "source": "scene:142",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.butt": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Treat him with extra respect once you see it hurt.",
     "source": "scene:144",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.butt": "+",
      "relationships.crew": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G07",
   "name": "Whose side are you on",
   "predicament": "The people around you are sorting out who stands with the workers and who with the masters, and you must show which.",
   "sentence": "A working man wants to stand with the right people from mates on one side, masters on the other.",
   "actor": "working man",
   "wants": "to stand with the right people",
   "counterpart": "mates on one side, masters on the other",
   "stories": [
    8,
    13,
    41
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "His Country-After All",
    "Stragglers",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 2,
    "low": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 50,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who was starved and overworked in his own country declares loyalty only to the place that treated him fairly."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 51,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who was used up by the people who owned his country argues that loyalty to it only serves those masters."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 84,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Men between jobs sound each other out about which side each one is on, then swap boasts about getting the better of the bosses."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 233,
     "story": 41,
     "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,
     "predicament": "A man boasts to strangers of defying a boss and beating the men brought in against him, until someone tells him to stop."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Declare yourself with your mates.",
     "source": "scene:84",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mates": "+",
      "relationships.boss": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Boast of how you stood up to a boss.",
     "source": "scene:234",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.mates": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say your loyalty goes only to whoever treats you fairly.",
     "source": "scene:50",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mates": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your views to yourself.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G08",
   "name": "The one who holds your living",
   "predicament": "Your living depends on someone who will not wait, will not raise your pay, and can put another in your place.",
   "sentence": "A worker wants to keep their place from the boss.",
   "actor": "worker",
   "wants": "to keep their place",
   "counterpart": "the boss",
   "stories": [
    6,
    9,
    12,
    22,
    35
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Hungerford",
    "A Day on a Selection",
    "Arvie Aspinall’s Alarm Clock",
    "Mitchell Doesn’t Believe in the Sack",
    "A Visit of Condolence"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 42,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "An old hand has been offered work on terms that put every cost and every risk on him, and sours on the whole country."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 55,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A bored youngster left with the daily drudgery cuts every corner he can, knowing nobody will ever check the work properly."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 75,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A sick youngster insists on going to work anyway, because the people he works for will not wait and someone else wants his place."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 119,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A man who has lost every place he ever had resolves that next time he is let go, he simply will not leave."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 120,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A worker told there is no more work for him argues calmly that he is comfortable where he is and will not accept it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 121,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A man let go for lack of work stays on for his meals, betting the boss will give him work rather than feed him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 196,
     "story": 35,
     "predicament": "A rough youngster comes to warn a workmate that someone will take his place, and learns that the workmate has died."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Go to work sick rather than lose your place.",
     "source": "scene:75",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "+",
      "grit": "+",
      "flags.worked_sick": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Refuse to take the sack.",
     "source": "scene:120",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.boss": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Do only what anyone will check.",
     "source": "scene:55",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "-",
      "nous": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Turn down terms that put every cost on you.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your head down and never ask for a rise.",
     "source": "scene:199",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G09",
   "name": "No work to be had",
   "predicament": "There is no work to be had, and you must keep yourself fed until there is, however you can.",
   "sentence": "A worker out of work wants work, or at least a meal from whoever might hire or feed them.",
   "actor": "worker out of work",
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   "counterpart": "whoever might hire or feed them",
   "stories": [
    13,
    16,
    27,
    38,
    44,
    50
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Stragglers",
    "In a Dry Season",
    "“Dossing Out” and “Camping”",
    "Mitchell: A Character Sketch",
    "Jones’s Alley",
    "Baldy Thompson"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 1,
    "high": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 80,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Men with no work must keep walking from one handout to the next just to live until the season's work comes round again."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 97,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man out of work is sent after a place that turns out to be days away on foot, with nothing to eat."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 145,
     "story": 27,
     "predicament": "Men with no work and nowhere to sleep huddle together on a cold pavement, scavenging for scraps before the day begins."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 209,
     "story": 38,
     "predicament": "Asking a mean boss for work and getting none, a man settles for a handout and quietly helps himself to the better share."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 261,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A youngster who quit underpaid work to escape a sponging stepfather can only fall back on work that pays nothing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 298,
     "story": 50,
     "predicament": "A boss who once did every kind of work himself turns travellers away, pleading hard times, though he can never quite refuse them."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Keep walking from one handout to the next.",
     "source": "scene:80",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask for any work at all, then settle for a handout.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.boss": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take whatever work is going, however poor.",
     "source": "scene:261",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "grit": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go wherever you are sent, however far.",
     "source": "scene:97",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.authority": "+",
      "money": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay put and wait for the season to turn.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G10",
   "name": "Taking from those who will not miss it",
   "predicament": "The outfit that employs or carries you has plenty and gives you little, and it would be easy to help yourself.",
   "sentence": "A poorly treated worker wants a fairer share from the company or the boss.",
   "actor": "poorly treated worker",
   "wants": "a fairer share",
   "counterpart": "the company or the boss",
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    13,
    28,
    39,
    41
   ],
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    "Stragglers",
    "Across the Straits",
    "The Bush Undertaker",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 5
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 82,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Men waiting out the slack time shelter together, time their begging for when the boss is away, and watch over a sick newcomer."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 150,
     "story": 28,
     "predicament": "Travellers forced to pay high prices to the only company going are served bad food, and quietly help themselves to the cargo instead."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 211,
     "story": 39,
     "predicament": "An old man alone at a remote post decides to knock off early for the holiday, sure that the boss will never know."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 240,
     "story": 41,
     "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,
     "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."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Help yourself, and share it round.",
     "source": "scene:240",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.mates": "+",
      "flags.pilfered": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Time it for when the boss is away.",
     "source": "scene:82",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "money": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Knock off early; nobody will know.",
     "source": "scene:211",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "-",
      "flags.skived": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Leave it alone; some poor man may bear the loss.",
     "source": "scene:241",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.mates": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell on whoever did it.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.boss": "+",
      "relationships.mates": "-",
      "flags.informer": "set"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G11",
   "name": "A venture that keeps failing",
   "predicament": "Everything you have put into a venture keeps being lost, and you could give it up or put in still more.",
   "sentence": "A struggling small holder wants to make it pay at last from bad luck and bad advice.",
   "actor": "struggling small holder",
   "wants": "to make it pay at last",
   "counterpart": "bad luck and bad advice",
   "stories": [
    0,
    1,
    9,
    24,
    29
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "An Old Mate of Your Father’s",
    "Settling on the Land",
    "A Day on a Selection",
    "His Father’s Mate",
    "The Drover’s Wife"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 1,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "Two old companions walk over the ground of a venture that failed them and plan a fresh try neither will ever make."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 2,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A man stuck with a poor living keeps his mind on the lost chances of his youth, egged on by an old companion."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 7,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A beginner working alone takes on the hardest task first, armed with more advice from others than experience of his own."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 10,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man who keeps acting on bad advice watches everything he owns die one after another, and still will not give up."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 54,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A worn-out household scrapes a living from sick stock and slack habits, following advice from people who know even less."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 126,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "Those too poor, old or disheartened to follow the next opportunity stay behind to scratch a living from what others abandoned."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 166,
     "story": 29,
     "predicament": "A wife alone keeps losing battles against flood and sickness, and pretends her menfolk are close by whenever a stranger calls."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Try again the same way, only harder.",
     "source": "scene:10",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take the advice of whoever is nearest.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.neighbours": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep talking of the fresh start you will make one day.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.mate": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Cut your losses and take wage work.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Scratch a living from what others left behind.",
     "source": "scene:126",
     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G12",
   "name": "Going away for work, leaving people behind",
   "predicament": "There is no living to be had where your people are, and the only work is far away, where they cannot follow yet.",
   "sentence": "A worker wants a living from the family and mates they would leave.",
   "actor": "worker",
   "wants": "a living",
   "counterpart": "the family and mates they would leave",
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    17,
    34,
    41,
    51
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "He’d Come Back",
    "“Some Day”",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage",
    "For Auld Lang Syne"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 99,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A man who left his wife behind to follow work drifts into another life far away, and tells the story for sympathy."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 192,
     "story": 34,
     "predicament": "A rough man sure the woman he loves could never want him keeps his distance, and takes work far away to escape it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 236,
     "story": 41,
     "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": 242,
     "story": 41,
     "predicament": "Men who left their wives behind to go ahead and find work sight the new shore, and the fear of finding none returns."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 302,
     "story": 51,
     "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,
     "predicament": "A band of workmates who shared good times and lean ones gather to see off the first of them forced to leave."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 307,
     "story": 51,
     "predicament": "As the last of his old mates leaves, a man left behind decides it is time he followed them too."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Go, and send for them when you can.",
     "source": "scene:302",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-",
      "flags.went_away": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go, and let the ties lapse.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Follow your mates out.",
     "source": "scene:307",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mates": "+",
      "money": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay and make do.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.family": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G13",
   "name": "Time to walk away",
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   "sentence": "A restless person wants to be free of it from the people they would leave.",
   "actor": "restless person",
   "wants": "to be free of it",
   "counterpart": "the people they would leave",
   "stories": [
    3,
    15,
    20,
    32,
    48
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Stiffner and Jim",
    "On the Edge of a Plain",
    "Drifted Back",
    "Board and Residence",
    "The Geological Spieler"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 5
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 27,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A mate who shared fairly still proves too sharp to travel beside, and the other quietly decides to go his own way."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 94,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A wanderer swears to stay home for good, but within a week his family are grumbling because he cannot find work there."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 111,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A wanderer finds nothing left for him in the place he came back to, and quietly takes to the road again alone."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 189,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "A man who wants to leave a bad arrangement is too timid to say why, and invents polite excuses instead."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 292,
     "story": 48,
     "predicament": "Unsure which of his hosts has seen through him, a trickster decides it is time to move on before he is exposed."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Leave quietly, without a word.",
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      "relationships.locals": "-",
      "flags.moved_on": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Invent a polite excuse and go.",
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      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.locals": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say plainly why you are going.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.locals": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay, because you promised.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.family": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Move on before you are found out.",
     "source": "scene:292",
     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
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  {
   "id": "G14",
   "name": "Owing more than you can pay",
   "predicament": "You owe money you cannot find, and the one you owe has you cornered and knows it.",
   "sentence": "A debtor wants time, or a way out from a creditor who holds their roof or their goods.",
   "actor": "debtor",
   "wants": "time, or a way out",
   "counterpart": "a creditor who holds their roof or their goods",
   "stories": [
    3,
    28,
    32,
    44
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Stiffner and Jim",
    "Across the Straits",
    "Board and Residence",
    "Jones’s Alley"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
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   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 18,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Two broke travellers run up a debt with a hard, dangerous man, trusting that they look as if they can pay."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 154,
     "story": 28,
     "predicament": "A man who lost money he partly owed to someone else feels the loss as a judgment on him for not paying."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 185,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "A lodger who has fallen behind finds the politeness of the one he owes turning cold, however well he paid before."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 186,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "A man behind on what he owes is made unwelcome in the only home he has, and has nowhere else to rest."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 187,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "A man who owes money must stand and listen for hours to the one he owes, because she has him cornered and knows it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 256,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A woman billed for repairs she never ordered is passed from one person to the next until the whole debt lands on her."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Stand and listen, and hope it buys you time.",
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      "relationships.creditor": "+",
      "grit": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep out of their way as much as you can.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.creditor": "-",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go from door to door arguing that it is not your debt.",
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      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.creditor": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Pay what you can now, and promise the rest.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.creditor": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Run up more, looking as if you can pay.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "flags.living_on_tick": "set",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
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  {
   "id": "G15",
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   "sentence": "A debtor wants to get clear with their things from the one they owe.",
   "actor": "debtor",
   "wants": "to get clear with their things",
   "counterpart": "the one they owe",
   "stories": [
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    23,
    44
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Stiffner and Jim",
    "Shooting the Moon",
    "Jones’s Alley"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 9
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   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 21,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Planning to slip away from a debt, a man chats easily with the one he owes and decides he may as well take more."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 23,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Having crippled the pursuit in advance, a man asks what he owes, hears the threat he expected, and runs for it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 24,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Running from someone he cheated, a man outlasts him on rough ground and vanishes before a proper pursuit can be organised."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 123,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Two strangers each planning to slip away from what they owe discover each other and agree to join forces on the spot."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 124,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Caught sneaking away from a debt, a man is asked why he did not simply admit he was broke, and is helped instead."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 263,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A youngster offers to move a woman out by night before the one she owes can seize her goods, asking nothing back."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 264,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A frightened woman decides to trust a young friend's plan to slip away with her few belongings before they are taken."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 266,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "Helping a woman slip away from her debts, the helpers are watched by someone in authority who chooses to look the other way."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 267,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A night flight gets away quietly while the one person who could stop it walks steadily off in the other direction."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Clear out by night with whatever you can carry.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "flags.did_a_flit": "set",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Hobble the pursuit first, then run.",
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     "moves": {
      "nous": "+",
      "relationships.creditor": "-",
      "flags.did_a_flit": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Go to them and admit you are broke.",
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     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.creditor": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take a little more on your way out.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.creditor": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay and face what comes.",
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     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G16",
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   "predicament": "Someone powerful wants you gone or wants what is yours, and the rules and the people who apply them are on his side.",
   "sentence": "A small holder wants to keep what is theirs from a powerful man and the law that backs him.",
   "actor": "small holder",
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   "counterpart": "a powerful man and the law that backs him",
   "stories": [
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    27,
    41,
    44
   ],
   "story_titles": [
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    "“Dossing Out” and “Camping”",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage",
    "Jones’s Alley"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 8,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A small holder struggling to clear his ground finds a powerful neighbour set on driving him off by any means at all."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 12,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A small holder hounded by a powerful neighbour tries to hit back the same way, and it is he who ends up locked away."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 13,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man ruined by one blow after another is comforted by a neighbour ruined alongside him, then loses the rest to a powerful man."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 146,
     "story": 27,
     "predicament": "A man down and out in the city is treated as rubbish by the law, and longs for the freedom of being poor elsewhere."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 227,
     "story": 41,
     "predicament": "Travellers leaving to look for work meet a newcomer who complains that the rich rob freely while the poor are punished hard."
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    {
     "chunk": 258,
     "story": 44,
     "predicament": "A poor woman sued by someone on good terms with the one judging loses in a moment and is hustled out unheard."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Hit back the same way he hits you.",
     "source": "scene:12",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.authority": "-",
      "flags.hit_back": "set",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Fight it out in front of the ones who judge.",
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     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.authority": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Hold on and outlast him.",
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     "moves": {
      "grit": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say out loud that the rules are rigged.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.mates": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give up the ground and move on.",
     "source": "archetype",
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      "money": "-",
      "relationships.authority": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
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   "id": "G17",
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    27,
    32,
    41,
    44
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    "“Dossing Out” and “Camping”",
    "Board and Residence",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage",
    "Jones’s Alley"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
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   "stage": "low",
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     "chunk": 149,
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    {
     "chunk": 184,
     "story": 32,
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    {
     "chunk": 229,
     "story": 41,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 230,
     "story": 41,
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    {
     "chunk": 232,
     "story": 41,
     "predicament": "Men who have come down in the world hide their poverty from their neighbours in the cramped quarters of the cheapest berths."
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    {
     "chunk": 254,
     "story": 44,
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   ],
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    {
     "text": "Spend your last on a show for them.",
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      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+",
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     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say you have eaten, and go hungry.",
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      "grit": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let them think you are better off, and slip away.",
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      "relationships.sweetheart": "risk",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Own up that times are hard.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
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    2,
    27,
    41,
    47
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    "Enter Mitchell",
    "“Dossing Out” and “Camping”",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage",
    "She Wouldn’t Speak"
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    "low": 9
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   "stage": "low",
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     "chunk": 16,
     "story": 2,
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    {
     "chunk": 17,
     "story": 2,
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    {
     "chunk": 147,
     "story": 27,
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    {
     "chunk": 237,
     "story": 41,
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    {
     "chunk": 277,
     "story": 47,
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    {
     "chunk": 278,
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    {
     "chunk": 279,
     "story": 47,
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     "chunk": 280,
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    {
     "text": "Tell them flatly you are not ashamed.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.betters": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make a game of forcing them to notice you.",
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      "nous": "+",
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Show them the door without a word.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.betters": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take what they offer anyway, once your point is made.",
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      "money": "-",
      "relationships.betters": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Swallow it and keep your eyes down.",
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      "standing": "-"
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     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
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  {
   "id": "G19",
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   "counterpart": "mates, and the bar",
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    28,
    36,
    41,
    46,
    51
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    "His Father’s Mate",
    "Across the Straits",
    "In a Wet Season",
    "Coming Across⁠—A Study in the Steerage",
    "Bogg of Geebung",
    "For Auld Lang Syne"
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    "low": 6
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   "stage": "low",
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    {
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    {
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     "story": 36,
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    {
     "chunk": 231,
     "story": 41,
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    {
     "chunk": 273,
     "story": 46,
     "predicament": "The town drunk, fined and locked up as a matter of routine, shows a learning nobody expects by correcting his betters' work."
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    {
     "chunk": 305,
     "story": 51,
     "predicament": "Workmates seeing one of their own off stretch the parting with one more drink after another until the very last moment."
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   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Shout your mates and hang the cost.",
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      "money": "-",
      "relationships.mates": "+",
      "flags.on_the_spree": "set"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Drink the last of it and decide not to care.",
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      "money": "-",
      "grit": "-"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Head straight for the bar when work is done.",
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      "money": "-",
      "relationships.mates": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep it in your pocket.",
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      "money": "+",
      "relationships.mates": "-"
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     "in_group": null
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    38,
    48,
    50
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    "Steelman’s Pupil",
    "Mitchell: A Character Sketch",
    "The Geological Spieler",
    "Baldy Thompson"
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    "low": 6,
    "high": 2
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   "stage": "low",
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    {
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    {
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    {
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     "story": 48,
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    {
     "chunk": 284,
     "story": 48,
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    {
     "chunk": 286,
     "story": 48,
     "predicament": "Having dazzled his listener, a trickster drops a hint of hidden riches and angles for a free place to stay."
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    {
     "chunk": 299,
     "story": 50,
     "predicament": "Travellers learn that the way to a boss's charity is to flatter his opinions, and he half knows it and pays anyway."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 301,
     "story": 50,
     "predicament": "A man who flattered a generous boss to get help learns that honest disagreement would have won him more respect."
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    {
     "text": "Spin a sad story to fit their soft spot.",
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      "money": "+",
      "nous": "+",
      "flags.worked_a_mark": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Pose as someone important.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "nous": "+",
      "flags.worked_a_mark": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Agree with everything they say.",
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      "money": "+",
      "relationships.host": "+"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep them talking while they give.",
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      "nous": "+",
      "money": "+"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask straight, and take what you are given.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.host": "+"
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   "actor": "soft-hearted worker",
   "wants": "to do right by the stranger",
   "counterpart": "a stranger who may be taking them in",
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    48
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    "Board and Residence",
    "The Geological Spieler"
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   "stage": "low",
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    {
     "chunk": 32,
     "story": 5,
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    {
     "chunk": 35,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "The kind man who stood up for a stranger learns, in front of everyone, that the stranger has robbed him blind."
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    {
     "chunk": 36,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "Everyone who shared quarters discovers the helpless stranger they sheltered has robbed them all, and the kindest of them is angriest."
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    {
     "chunk": 188,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "A newcomer who paid in advance on a stranger's recommendation finds the promises were lies and the recommender was paid."
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    {
     "chunk": 287,
     "story": 48,
     "predicament": "The leader of a working crew, taken in by a learned stranger, offers him shelter and hospitality for as long as he likes."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 289,
     "story": 48,
     "predicament": "Hard-working men who have little themselves go out of their way to make a pair of pretending strangers comfortable."
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    {
     "chunk": 291,
     "story": 48,
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   ],
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    {
     "text": "Vouch for him and warn off the mockers.",
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      "standing": "risk"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give him shelter and see how he turns out.",
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      "money": "-"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Check your things before you trust him further.",
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      "nous": "+",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go after him and take back what he took.",
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      "grit": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "flags.settled_it": "set"
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     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Test his story quietly.",
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      "nous": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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   "sentence": "A partner left at home wants to keep the family safe and fed from hardship, and a partner who is not there.",
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    35,
    44
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   "story_titles": [
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    "A Visit of Condolence",
    "Jones’s Alley"
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   "stage": "low",
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    {
     "chunk": 61,
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    {
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    {
     "chunk": 162,
     "story": 29,
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    {
     "chunk": 165,
     "story": 29,
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    {
     "chunk": 167,
     "story": 29,
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    {
     "chunk": 198,
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     "predicament": "A grieving mother and a rough boy find they share one hard story: fathers dead at work, mothers scrubbing to live."
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    {
     "chunk": 253,
     "story": 44,
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   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Sit up and keep watch yourself.",
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      "relationships.family": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Tell strangers the men are close by.",
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     "in_group": false
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    {
     "text": "Face down a threat with whatever is to hand.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "flags.faced_down": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Fight the disaster until help comes.",
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      "grit": "+",
      "money": "-"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give up the place and go where there are people.",
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      "money": "-"
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     "in_group": null
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    24,
    29
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    "Arvie Aspinall’s Alarm Clock",
    "His Father’s Mate",
    "The Drover’s Wife"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
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   "stage": "low",
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    {
     "chunk": 76,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A worn-out child working himself to death for a pittance begins to doubt the promise that hard work brings its own reward."
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    {
     "chunk": 128,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "A small boy proud to do a man's share of the work insists on hauling more than he should to help his father."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 135,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "A child eager to help at dangerous work falls to his death, and the hard men around him can do nothing to save him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 161,
     "story": 29,
     "predicament": "Keeping watch alone through a stormy night, a mother calms frightened children while her eager eldest wants to face the danger himself."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 171,
     "story": 29,
     "predicament": "Seeing his mother's tears after the long night, a boy vows never to take up the life that leaves a family alone."
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   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Let them help; the family needs it.",
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      "money": "+",
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "flags.child_at_risk": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Hold them back yourself.",
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      "relationships.child": "-",
      "grit": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Send them home, out of harm and bad company.",
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      "relationships.child": "risk",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let them rest, though it costs the pay.",
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      "relationships.child": "+"
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     "in_group": false
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   "sentence": "A family member wants to get off lightly from whoever at home caught them.",
   "actor": "family member",
   "wants": "to get off lightly",
   "counterpart": "whoever at home caught them",
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    9,
    40
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   "story_titles": [
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    "A Day on a Selection",
    "Our Pipes"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 5
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   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 4,
     "story": 0,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 56,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A mother suspects her son of skimping his work, he swears she is wrong, and the place they share keeps falling down."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 58,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A youngster blamed for every mishap on the place denies everything and takes his temper out on whatever is weaker than him."
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    {
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