[
 {
  "chunk": 51,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Taking the cure at a spa, the father mocks high-priced specialists and recalls a glut of canned beef that no booklet of new recipes could move, since every recipe came out as hash.",
  "predicament": "Someone with more stock than buyers tries dressing the same goods up as something new, and the disguise fools nobody.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "try to sell a glut by passing the same thing off in new disguises",
    "outcome": "it does not work",
    "quote": "after he had schemed out ten different combinations, the other ninety turned out to be corned-beef hash. So that was no use.",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 52,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "A fancy gilt label and a higher price moved the glut at once; the father is glad the son has been promoted to the billing desk, but wary of how parents rate their children.",
  "predicament": "Someone with goods that will not move tries giving them a grander label and a higher price instead of a lower one.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "give the goods a fancier label and charge more",
    "outcome": "people want them",
    "quote": "Of course, people just naturally wanted it. There's nothing helps convince some men that a thing has merit like a little gold on the label.",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 53,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "A widow whose husband left no insurance brings her son to the father for a job, praising him extravagantly; the father takes him on at her valuation.",
  "predicament": "Someone is asked to take on a newcomer on the strength of a doting parent's glowing account of them.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 54,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The new errand boy is behind a string of mishaps but has an excuse every time and is let off with a warning; a big customer's pampered son wanders into the errand boys' lunchroom.",
  "predicament": "A new hand keeps causing trouble with an excuse ready every time, and is let off because they are new.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 55,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The errand boys string the customer's son upside down in a game of pig-sticking; the customer cancels his contract, the boy is sent packing, and his mother blames the father.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer taken on as a favour plays a reckless prank that costs an important customer and their own place.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "play a rough prank on a customer's family",
    "outcome": "the customer takes their business away and you lose your place",
    "quote": "Willie's father canceled his bologna contract and marched off",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 56,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The father distrusts his own fond judgement and gets an outsider's valuation in figures; he put his son under the foreman to see him through unsentimental eyes, and the foreman rates him a billing clerk.",
  "predicament": "Someone must judge the worth of something or someone they are fond of, and fondness is clouding their judgement.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "get a disinterested outsider's valuation of what you are fond of",
    "outcome": "you see the solid facts once the sentiment is strained off",
    "quote": "if you really want a look at the solid facts of a thing you must strain off the sentiment first",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Sons do not always turn out as represented; it is best to let a boy follow his bent, because the way to show him he chose wrong is to let him try it.",
  "predicament": "A young person is set on work their family thinks wrong for them, and the family must decide whether to forbid it.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "let someone try the work they are set on, instead of arguing",
    "outcome": "if it is wrong they will quit on their own, and if it is right you had no business stopping them",
    "quote": "If it really is the wrong thing you won't have to argue with him to quit, and if it isn't you haven't any right to.",
    "stance": "do"
   },
   {
    "move": "keep someone's leaning bottled up",
    "outcome": "it comes out harder later",
    "quote": "the longer you keep it bottled up the harder it comes",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "An old friend's son is sent to learn the hide trade at the father's firm and announces on arrival that whatever he wants to do, it is not leather; his father had brushed that aside.",
  "predicament": "A young person placed in the family trade tells everyone plainly that it is not the work they want to do.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The friend's son quits just before being fired, the father loses his old friend's trade, and the young man turns up as a reporter who prints what the father might have said.",
  "predicament": "Someone has taken on a friend's child as a favour, and the placement is failing in a way that will cost the friendship.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "hire friends or their children",
    "outcome": "you lose the friendship and the friend's business",
    "quote": "it cost me the old man's trade and friendship. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "As a war correspondent the young man makes news when there is none, and sends his paper a detailed account of his own capture and execution.",
  "predicament": "Someone whose work rewards a good story learns they can invent the news when there is none, and is praised for it.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The invented death sells papers, brings a memorial service and a collection among the clerks; then a wire asks the father for money and to keep the survival quiet.",
  "predicament": "A fabrication has been believed and mourned by everyone, and its author quietly asks the one person who knows to keep it dark.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 62,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The young man drifts back to life with a rescue story and earns ten thousand a year in New York; a dog born to point should not be run after foxes, and the son seems made for the family pack.",
  "predicament": "A misfit in the family trade, once left to find their own way, prospers in work that suits their gifts.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "leave the trade you were placed in for one that suits your gifts",
    "outcome": "you earn far more than you ever could have in the wrong trade",
    "quote": "drawing ten thousand a year, which was more than he could have worked up to in the leather business in a century",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 }
]