[
 {
  "chunk": 314,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Amid slumping stock and strikes, the gout-ridden boss quarrels with the firm's indispensable ore partner and wires him to 'go sew his head in a bag'; Torchy shows the message to the head clerk, who is appalled.",
  "predicament": "The boss fires off an insulting message to a partner the firm cannot do without, and those below him can only watch."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 315,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Nobody dares tell the boss not to send it; the partner threatens to resign and stir up a revolt, then the boss falls ill with flu and is confined at home, leaving Mr. Robert frantic.",
  "predicament": "Everyone agrees the boss's rash message should not go out, but nobody dares tell him, and the fallout lands on those below."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 316,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Mr. Robert sends Torchy to the boss's house with papers, partly because Torchy tends to cheer the old man up; Torchy finds him limping about the library in a rage.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is sent to a sick, furious boss precisely because he is the one person who sometimes improves his mood."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 317,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The boss rants about being a useless old wreck; Torchy teases that his temper is mostly bluff, which pleases him, and is then ordered to throw all his medicines out of the window.",
  "predicament": "A raging boss orders someone junior to carry out a reckless command that the boss hasn't the nerve to do himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 318,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Torchy smashes all the medicine in the areaway; the boss, bored and miserable after four days indoors, demands something to do, and when Torchy suggests games he is sent off with twenty dollars to buy some.",
  "predicament": "A bored, ailing boss demands that someone junior find him an occupation, then makes him carry out his own vague suggestion."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 319,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Torchy buys a heap of toys with a salesman's help and returns to find the doctor furious about the medicines; the boss cuts him off by showing off 'Torchy's drug substitute'.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior returns from a strange errand to face an outraged professional, and the boss turns the matter into a joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 320,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The boss plays with the ring toss and air-gun while the doctor scoffs, breaks a cabinet door, and then unpacks an indoor putting green.",
  "predicament": "A dignified boss throws himself into childish amusements while a disapproving professional watches and scoffs."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 321,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The doctor is drawn in, the two bet on putts, and soon they have laid out a golf course across the whole ground floor with the butler and Torchy as caddies.",
  "predicament": "A sceptical visitor gets drawn into the boss's silly game, and soon everyone in the house is serving it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 322,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The head clerk arrives with urgent office business, is brushed off by the boss, and Torchy shoos him out with a rude 'boom-boom, outside' chant; then two worried directors are announced.",
  "predicament": "A supervisor arrives with urgent business while the boss is at play, and someone junior shoos him out on the boss's behalf."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 323,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The boss teaches his friends Torchy's chant to greet the directors, who take it as a joke and join a foursome; then the offended partner storms in, and the boss has everyone chant at him.",
  "predicament": "The boss adopts someone junior's cheeky catchphrase and uses it to greet an angry partner who has come to confront him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 324,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "The partner demands an explanation; the boss drafts him into the game, withdraws the insult as gout talking, and wagers that if the partner wins he gets his way in their dispute.",
  "predicament": "The boss disarms an angry partner by drawing him into a game and staking their whole dispute on the result."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 325,
  "story": 24,
  "summary": "Torchy tells a baffled Mr. Robert by phone that the crisis is being settled by indoor golf; the partner wins, the two old men laugh and drink together, and next day the boss gives Torchy a caddie's tip.",
  "predicament": "A crisis the boss's relative feared is settled by the boss's game, and someone junior earns thanks for the idea behind it."
 }
]