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{"chunk":94,"story":7,"summary":"An old villager chats with a travelling painter repainting the inn sign, which had been mistaken for a portrait of a king.","predicament":"A craftsman told his work looks like something else quietly fixes it before anyone else notices."},
{"chunk":95,"story":7,"summary":"The painter shares his beer, and the old man begins the tale of a travelling circus that stopped in the village.","predicament":"An old man looking for a free drink offers a story in exchange."},
{"chunk":96,"story":7,"summary":"News comes that the circus tiger has escaped nearby; a tramp comes running to the inn shouting that the tiger is after him, and the drinkers rush indoors.","predicament":"People who laughed at a distant danger panic when it seems to have arrived on their doorstep."},
{"chunk":97,"story":7,"summary":"The landlord bars the door against the tramp; a man knocks the landlord down to get out to protect the families, and the tramp gets in.","predicament":"Someone must choose between keeping himself safe behind a barred door and letting in a stranger in danger."},
{"chunk":98,"story":7,"summary":"The tramp, revived with free brandy, tells a vivid tale of fleeing the tiger, and the men are afraid to go home.","predicament":"A stranger with a thrilling tale of danger is rewarded by a frightened crowd without anyone checking it."},
{"chunk":99,"story":7,"summary":"The men sleep at the inn; the tramp is gone by morning; the village lives in fear, though the local rogue laughs at the whole thing.","predicament":"A community living in fear of an unseen threat ignores the one doubter, because he has a bad name."},
{"chunk":100,"story":7,"summary":"A villager's hens are taken; he carries the evidence to the constable in the next village, who shoves him away as drunk.","predicament":"A man who has suffered a loss goes to the authorities for help and is brushed off as a nuisance."},
{"chunk":101,"story":7,"summary":"Pigs vanish night after night; the authorities do nothing, and neighbours squabble over whether to take animals indoors.","predicament":"A community suffering repeated losses cannot get help, and cannot agree how to protect itself."},
{"chunk":102,"story":7,"summary":"Children claim sightings, and a villager staggers in describing how the tiger chased him up a tree.","predicament":"A man tells a dramatic story of narrow escape to an audience eager to believe it."},
{"chunk":103,"story":7,"summary":"When one man questions the story, the rogue 'confirms' it, claiming he watched from another tree; the storyteller, caught out, goes home silent.","predicament":"A man caught in a boastful lie is 'backed up' by a rival, who now has him trapped by it."},
{"chunk":104,"story":7,"summary":"The neighbouring town and the clergyman say there was no tiger; after more losses a former militiaman raises a band of seventeen to hunt it.","predicament":"People told their fears are nonsense by outsiders decide to take matters into their own hands."},
{"chunk":105,"story":7,"summary":"The hunt searches the wood timidly and finds nothing; back at the inn, an old man reports the tiger has just gone into the rogue's cottage.","predicament":"A band that set out to face a danger returns relieved to have found nothing, and is then called to face it for real."},
{"chunk":106,"story":7,"summary":"The armed men crowd into the rogue's cottage, pushing him ahead of them, despite his protests.","predicament":"A man with something to hide has an armed crowd force its way into his home."},
{"chunk":107,"story":7,"summary":"His kitchen is full of pork and poultry; accused of theft, he brazenly claims to have gone into the meat trade.","predicament":"A man caught with the evidence of his thefts brazens it out and dares his accusers to prove anything."},
{"chunk":108,"story":7,"summary":"He turns their own tiger sightings against them: those who swore they saw it would have to repeat it on oath.","predicament":"A man accused of wrongdoing turns his accusers' own exaggerations into his defence."},
{"chunk":109,"story":7,"summary":"He claims to have receipts, offers to sell them the meat, and gets away with it; he and the tramp turn out to have known each other.","predicament":"People who know they were swindled cannot prove it, and must watch the swindler profit."}
]