[
 {
  "chunk": 148,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Newspapers say rivals have caught the father short on lard; he tells the son not to mind, since he never sells what he cannot lay hands on and is ready to fight.",
  "predicament": "Rumours are spreading that rivals have caught someone overextended in the market and mean to break them.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "never commit to deliver what you cannot lay hands on",
    "outcome": "rivals who try to squeeze you find you ready for them",
    "quote": "I never sell goods without knowing where I can find them when I want them",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 149,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Ignore both abuse and flattery, and please your own side since you cannot please both; a lady once asked to borrow a vacant lot of the father's for a day nursery, and he agreed.",
  "predicament": "Someone is praised by one side and reviled by the other for the same act, and must decide whom to heed.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "ignore both abuse and flattery",
    "outcome": "the one cannot harm you and the other cannot help you",
    "quote": "There are two things you never want to pay any attention to--abuse and flattery. The first can't harm you and the second can't help you.",
    "stance": "do"
   },
   {
    "move": "please your own side rather than trying to please both",
    "outcome": "you cannot please both anyway",
    "quote": "As long as you can't please both sides in this world, there's nothing like pleasing your own side.",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 150,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The lady returns for a building, then cows, then paint, each time making him feel mean for not offering; he paints an advertisement for the firm on the long shed wall.",
  "predicament": "Someone who granted a small favour to a good cause finds the requests growing every time they give in.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 151,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "She tells the town he gave a cheap shed and took a costly advertisement, and shames him into paying; he sells the lot and quits, noting that worry is the one thing he put into business that never paid.",
  "predicament": "Someone who turned a charity to their own advantage is shamed into paying for it and gets out altogether.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "put worry into your business",
    "outcome": "it is the one thing that never pays back",
    "quote": "the only thing I've ever put into it which didn't draw dividends in fun or dollars was worry",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 152,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Worry always picks the wrong thing: the refinery burns while you fret over the safe, and your health breaks while you fear for the business; a busy man leaves worrying to others.",
  "predicament": "Someone lies awake over what might go wrong, while the real trouble comes from where they never looked.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "worry over what might go wrong",
    "outcome": "the trouble comes from elsewhere, and worry itself ruins your health",
    "quote": "you worry because you're afraid your business is going to smash, and your health busts up instead",
    "stance": "avoid"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "chunk": 153,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A widow with fourteen children let them roam all day; when her youngest's clothes were found by the swimming hole, she asked to see the body before any funeral.",
  "predicament": "Someone brought news of a disaster declines to grieve or spend anything until they see proof of it.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 154,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The town stops work to praise the drowned boy and drag the river; after a week the widow pays a fortune-teller to reach him, who fails.",
  "predicament": "While everyone around makes a great show of grief and alarm, one person asks only for results.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 155,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "She pays more each day, and the fortune-teller raises the dead father and famous ghosts, but never the boy.",
  "predicament": "Someone paying for news finds the answers costing more each time without producing anything they asked for.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 156,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "She concludes the boy is not dead, chases off the mourners, finds him hiding next morning and thrashes him; the men who had praised him cuff him for making fools of them.",
  "predicament": "Someone who let everyone mourn them as lost turns up unharmed, and those who praised them feel made fools of.",
  "advice": []
 },
 {
  "chunk": 157,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The boy had run off to fight Indians and come back hungry; the time to worry is when a thing is over, and the way is to leave it to the neighbours.",
  "predicament": "Someone facing an uncertain outcome must decide whether to worry about it now or wait until they know.",
  "advice": [
   {
    "move": "hold off worrying until the outcome is known, and leave the fretting to others",
    "outcome": "the feared loss may never have happened",
    "quote": "the time to do your worrying is when a thing is all over, and that the way to do it is to leave it to the neighbors",
    "stance": "do"
   }
  ]
 }
]