[
 {"chunk": 138, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The son writes that he is doing famously; the father says he need not report his own merits, since real worth is found out and men who do big things are too busy to talk of them.",
  "predicament": "Someone doing well in a new post keeps telling their superiors how well they are doing.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "keep telling your superiors how good you are", "outcome": "it is needless, since real merit is found out anyway", "quote": "There's never any use trying to hide the fact that you're a jim-dandy--you're bound to be found out.", "stance": "avoid"},
   {"move": "give more than you are paid for and let it speak", "outcome": "you need no explanations", "quote": "a man who's giving a dollar's worth of himself for ninety-nine cents doesn't need to throw in any explanations", "stance": "do"}]},
 {"chunk": 139, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Men who pass as good on their own say-so rise like balloons on hot air and fall hard; the slow path up a mountain is safer than any shortcut.",
  "predicament": "Someone watches others rise fast on talk and show, and is tempted to take the same shortcut.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "rise on talk and show", "outcome": "it carries you up but cannot keep you there, and the fall is hard", "quote": "Hot air can take up a balloon a long ways, but it can't keep it there.", "stance": "avoid"},
   {"move": "climb slowly by the steady path", "outcome": "you rise more slowly but do not come down suddenly", "quote": "You don't get up so quick, but you don't come down so sudden.", "stance": "do"}]},
 {"chunk": 140, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Life is a long climb, not a spurt; some men rush at things with a whoop, announce their plans and peter out, like a crowing rooster, while the hen lays quietly.",
  "predicament": "Someone rushes at each new undertaking with a great deal of noise, then loses interest before it is done.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "announce your plans loudly and rush at them", "outcome": "you run out of wind before you finish", "quote": "They mistake intention for determination, and after they have told you what they propose to do and get right up to doing it, they simply peter out.", "stance": "avoid"},
   {"move": "work quietly and speak only when there is a result", "outcome": "when you are heard from, there is something to show", "quote": "But when you hear from a hen, she's laid an egg, and she don't make a great deal of noise about it, either.", "stance": "do"}]},
 {"chunk": 141, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The son asks a job for a friend who will take nothing beneath his former position; the father refuses: the friend has sponged on his ruined father for years, and the only undignified job is loafing.",
  "predicament": "Someone fallen from comfortable circumstances refuses any work beneath their old position and lives on a relative meanwhile.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "hold out for work worthy of your old position while living on others", "outcome": "you sink to the bottom, and nobody will hire you", "quote": "He's one of those fellows who start in at the top and naturally work down to the bottom, because that is where they belong.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
 {"chunk": 142, "story": 16,
  "summary": "A boyhood glutton boasted of his courage but always found an excuse to dodge a fight; he feared everything except the food that was harming him.",
  "predicament": "A boastful person who ducks every real test is afraid of everything except what is actually harming them.",
  "advice": []},
 {"chunk": 143, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Dared to eat dirt, he did it rather than be called afraid, then made money at it and ended in a dime museum; many men eat a little dirt for show and more for easy money.",
  "predicament": "Someone who dodges every real risk will take a dare to shame themselves rather than be laughed at.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "do something shameful on a dare or for show", "outcome": "you go on doing more of it once you find easy money in it", "quote": "fellows who'll eat a little dirt \"for fun\" or to show off, and who'll eat a little more because they find that there's some easy money or times in it", "stance": "avoid"}]},
 {"chunk": 144, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Pride spurs the strong and drags the weak, making them fear a laugh, live on tomorrow's pay and ape richer men; the father was once caught stealing a watermelon and led home by the ear.",
  "predicament": "Someone is ruled by fear of looking foolish, and it pushes them to pose and spend beyond their means.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "let pride drive your work and your conscience", "outcome": "it keeps you straight and at your work", "quote": "it keeps his conscience straight and his back humped over his work; it makes him appreciate the little things and fight for the big ones", "stance": "do"},
   {"move": "let pride make you keep up appearances", "outcome": "you live on money not yet earned, imitating richer people", "quote": "it makes him live to-day on to-morrow's salary; it makes him a cheap imitation of some Willie who has a little more money than he has", "stance": "avoid"}]},
 {"chunk": 145, "story": 16,
  "summary": "His mother thrashed him and confined him until he had learned a chapter of scripture and the commandments by heart.",
  "predicament": "Someone caught in a petty theft is punished and set a hard task, which they master out of sheer necessity.",
  "advice": []},
 {"chunk": 146, "story": 16,
  "summary": "In Sunday school he recited the whole chapter and was praised before everyone as an example, until his mother, at the back of the room, told him to tell them how he came to know it so well.",
  "predicament": "Someone is being publicly praised for an accomplishment that was really a punishment, while the one who knows looks on.",
  "advice": []},
 {"chunk": 147, "story": 16,
  "summary": "He confessed to stealing the watermelon before the laughing school, was punished again, and learned humility that lasted twenty years.",
  "predicament": "Someone enjoying praise they did not earn is made to confess before everyone how they really came by it.",
  "advice": [
   {"move": "take the public humbling when you have claimed credit you did not earn", "outcome": "it purges false pride for years", "quote": "it sweat more cant and false pride out of my system than I could get back into it for the next twenty years", "stance": "do"}]}
]