[
 {
  "chunk": 177,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator introduces a fearless six-year-old boy whom everyone in the hill capital knows, the only child ever to interrupt the supreme council.",
  "predicament": "A fearless child who knows everyone treats the most powerful people in the land as ordinary friends to be asked for help."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 178,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "Chasing his runaway goat onto the viceroy's lawn, he calls on the council members to help, and they leave their meeting to catch it for him; his mother smacks him.",
  "predicament": "A small child with no awe of rank asks the most powerful people present for help, and they cheerfully drop everything to give it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 179,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "The boy is idolised by the household servants and the bearers, speaks the local languages, talks with shopkeepers and labourers, and repeats their hard sayings at breakfast.",
  "predicament": "A child who mixes freely with everyone at the bottom hears what the people at the top never do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 180,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "The council is finishing a land bill that limits leases to five years to protect tenants; the narrator says it is correct in theory and wrong in practice.",
  "predicament": "Those at the top write a rule to protect people they have never asked, and get the most important point wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 181,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "Nobody consulted the people affected; the conscientious legal member knows only English-speaking notables, and the busy district officers make no representations.",
  "predicament": "Someone conscientious at the top drafts a rule for people he has never spoken with, and everyone between is too busy to warn him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 182,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "At his mother's dinner the boy, in his dressing-gown, hears the bill named and tells the legal member he knows all about it from his friends in the bazaar.",
  "predicament": "At a gathering, a child who talks with ordinary people offers a powerful guest a view nobody else present has heard."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 183,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "The boy pauses to put his thoughts in order, translating from the vernacular as the legal member helps with questions.",
  "predicament": "A child pauses to translate what ordinary people told him into words that a powerful guest can understand and use."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 184,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "He relays a shopkeeper's case: five-year leases mean fresh stamps, fees and courts every few years, while fifteen would give a man and his son peace.",
  "predicament": "Relaying what the people affected actually say, a child explains exactly why a well-meant rule from above will hurt them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 185,
  "story": 22,
  "summary": "Struck, the legal member makes careful inquiries among the people concerned, amends the tenure clause, and the boy becomes a hero of the bazaar without understanding why.",
  "predicament": "Convinced by an unexpected voice from below, a powerful rule-maker quietly consults the people affected and changes the rule."
 }
]