[
 {
  "chunk": 0,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Pooter and his wife Carrie have just moved into a modest six-roomed house backing onto the railway; the landlord took £2 off the rent for the noise, and friends are made to use the side door.",
  "predicament": "A couple settling into a modest new home take pride in its small comforts and talk themselves past its obvious shortcomings."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 1,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Pooter describes his contented evenings pottering about the house, promises an ironmonger his custom, and notes that his old friend Gowing dropped in only to complain of the smell of paint and leave.",
  "predicament": "A contented householder tells his old friends to drop in whenever they like, and one of them only comes to complain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 2,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Pooter chooses a butcher while Carrie, without consulting him, chooses another, so two shoulders of mutton arrive; Cummings and Gowing both trip over the boot-scraper and Pooter makes a pun about it.",
  "predicament": "A husband and wife each arrange the household's buying without consulting the other, and both orders turn up at the door."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 3,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Pooter sends bad eggs back to the butterman and tells him not to call again; the butterman comes back drunk, abuses him at the door as a mere City clerk, and Pooter manages only a feeble retort.",
  "predicament": "A respectable man who returns a tradesman's bad goods is insulted at his own door as someone not worth serving."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 4,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The butterman apologises with a pound of butter and is forgiven; Pooter tries to show off his front door to the curate, but it will not open and the curate tears his trousers on the scraper at the side door; the curate asks him to take the collection plate round, which Pooter takes as a great compliment.",
  "predicament": "A man who means to impress an important visitor with his front entrance cannot get it open and must take him round the side."
 }
]