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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3 
Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes,
keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy,
wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written
groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters
gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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"Throwing the Line to Skid",
"When Ira Showed Some Pep",
"Breezing By With Peggy",
"Being Sicced On Percey",
"The Up Call for Torchy",
"Then Along Came Sukey",
"Zenobia Digs Up a Late One",
"Some Hoop-la for the Boss"
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"text": "Hold the line: nobody gets past but the one you were told to admit.",
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"text": "Give them nothing until they say what they want.",
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"text": "Hear them out yourself, courteously, and promise an answer.",
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"text": "Tell them bluntly to stop rocking the boat.",
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"text": "Send them straight in and let the boss sort it out.",
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"Down the Bumps with Cliffy",
"Touching on Tink Tuttle",
"Breezing By With Peggy",
"Late Returns On Popover"
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}
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"text": "Hear them out and take their case up yourself.",
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18,
20,
23
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"Where Mildred Got Next",
"Landing on a Side Street",
"First Aid for the Main Stem",
"When Miss Vee Threw the Dare",
"Pulling A Sleuth Stunt",
"Breezing By With Peggy"
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"predicament": "A boss who cannot decide if a cheeky junior is too fresh to keep or too sharp to lose decides to keep him."
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}
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"text": "Own up frankly, and offer to go.",
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"text": "Joke your way through the questions.",
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"text": "Confess before you are even asked.",
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"text": "Deny everything.",
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{
"text": "Apologise and promise it will never happen again.",
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9,
10,
14,
18,
20,
24
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"Meeting up with the Great Skid",
"Keeping Tabs on Piddie",
"Backing out of a Fluff Riot",
"Rung in with the Gold Spooners",
"Batting it up to Torchy",
"When Miss Vee Threw the Dare",
"Pulling A Sleuth Stunt",
"Gloom Shunting For The Boss"
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"predicament": "Someone junior is blamed at length for a mess a superior made, and takes the scolding in silence."
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"predicament": "Someone junior teases a stiff superior about his daydreams of getting rich, assuming he would never risk real money."
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},
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"predicament": "A stiff superior warns someone junior about the low company he keeps, and the junior answers with cheek."
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{
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"predicament": "A disgraced former boss thanks the junior who stood by him, while the junior's present supervisor demands to know where he was."
},
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"predicament": "Someone junior comforts a newcomer who has just been scolded by a petty supervisor, and tells her how little power he has."
},
{
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"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone junior guesses which eager-to-please superior quietly did the dirty job the honest old hand refused."
},
{
"chunk": 236,
"story": 18,
"predicament": "Someone junior blocked by a spiteful supervisor sees the boss torn between family duty and an expected business visit."
},
{
"chunk": 261,
"story": 20,
"predicament": "A fussy supervisor seizes the boss's unease to push in an acquaintance of his own as the expert who can solve it."
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{
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"story": 20,
"predicament": "Two old workplace enemies cooperate briefly on a secret errand for the boss, and the junior one lingers to watch."
},
{
"chunk": 272,
"story": 20,
"predicament": "After someone junior outshines a supervisor's boasted expert, the boss rewards the humble culprit and the supervisor is left humiliated."
},
{
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"story": 24,
"predicament": "A supervisor arrives with urgent business while the boss is at play, and someone junior shoos him out on the boss's behalf."
}
],
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"text": "Needle him for sport.",
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"relationships.supervisor": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Answer his lectures with cheek.",
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"relationships.supervisor": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Dare him to fire you, knowing he cannot.",
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"relationships.supervisor": "-",
"relationships.colleague": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Work with him on the boss's errand, just this once.",
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"moves": {
"relationships.supervisor": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep your head down and give him nothing to report.",
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"cheek": "-"
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}
]
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"counterpart": "the boss's family",
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3,
12,
13,
17,
25,
26,
29,
53
],
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"A Jolt for Piddie",
"Frosting the Profess",
"First Aid for the Main Stem",
"In on the Oolong",
"Getting Hermes on the Bounce",
"Torchy In On The Draw",
"Gladys In A Double Bill",
"The Passing By Of Bunny",
"When Ella May Came By"
],
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"high": 1
},
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},
{
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"story": 1,
"predicament": "Someone sent to recover something finds it guarded by an official who cannot be talked round or bought."
},
{
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"story": 1,
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},
{
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},
{
"chunk": 158,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone junior visits the boss at a place of enforced rest and finds him chafing under rules he never agreed to."
},
{
"chunk": 167,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone junior digs through a superior's rubbish for a lead, and races off with a message that cannot wait."
},
{
"chunk": 215,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Someone junior waiting at the boss's home overhears the family's young people whispering about a secret romance."
},
{
"chunk": 216,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Someone junior tries to excuse himself as there only on business, and the boss's daughter physically blocks his exit to enlist him."
},
{
"chunk": 217,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Someone junior is flattered by the boss's family into a private scheme, with a promise to square it at the office."
},
{
"chunk": 221,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Someone junior sent to collect a much-praised guest finds him nothing like the glowing description."
},
{
"chunk": 326,
"story": 25,
"predicament": "Someone junior is caught between the boss's relative, who is stuck in a meeting, and a family member demanding he keep a promise."
},
{
"chunk": 341,
"story": 26,
"predicament": "The boss's relative dodges a family social duty by handing someone junior an escort errand, with a pleasant catch attached."
},
{
"chunk": 353,
"story": 26,
"predicament": "Someone junior sent out on a misleading brief pointedly bills the boss's relative for it and plans to have his joke later."
},
{
"chunk": 382,
"story": 29,
"predicament": "The boss's relative would rather keep a social engagement than wait for urgent business, so he has someone junior stay late."
},
{
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"story": 53,
"predicament": "Just as a delicate courtship is going well, an uninvited guest announces she is arriving, and the junior is sent to collect her."
}
],
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{
"text": "Take the expense money and get it done, whatever it takes.",
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"standing": "+",
"flags.family_errand": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Try to excuse yourself as there on company business.",
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"moves": {
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Do it, then bill them to the penny.",
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"moves": {
"cheek": "+",
"money": "+",
"relationships.boss_family": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Stay late for it, and ask nothing.",
"source": "scene:382",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask what is in it for you before you agree.",
"source": "filled",
"moves": {
"savvy": "+",
"money": "+",
"relationships.boss_family": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G06",
"name": "Sent to stand in for the boss",
"predicament": "The boss, or someone in his family, has sent you in his place to judge, host or negotiate with people far above your rank.",
"sentence": "A junior stand-in wants to bring back what was wanted from people who expected the boss.",
"actor": "junior stand-in",
"wants": "to bring back what was wanted",
"counterpart": "people who expected the boss",
"stories": [
21,
25,
33,
46,
54
],
"story_titles": [
"When Ira Showed Some Pep",
"Torchy In On The Draw",
"Being Sicced On Percey",
"Teamwork with Aunty",
"Some Hoop-la for the Boss"
],
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"middle": 2,
"high": 5
},
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},
{
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"predicament": "The boss's relative asks someone junior to use his tact on a visitor who will barely speak to anyone."
},
{
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"story": 21,
"predicament": "A superior cannot get a crucial supplier to commit, and hands someone junior the job of finding out what is holding him back."
},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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"story": 21,
"predicament": "Freed of a hopeless infatuation, a visitor agrees to the deal, and someone junior brings the boss's relative the result he wanted."
},
{
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"story": 25,
"predicament": "The boss's relative dodges a social obligation by sending someone junior in his place with authority far beyond his experience."
},
{
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"story": 25,
"predicament": "Someone junior sent to judge something he knows nothing about is coached in a few stock phrases to bluff his way through."
},
{
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"predicament": "Someone junior bluffing as an expert blurts out his canned praise at the wrong moment and closes the deal far too abruptly."
},
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"chunk": 446,
"story": 33,
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"chunk": 447,
"story": 33,
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"chunk": 452,
"story": 33,
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"chunk": 620,
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"chunk": 622,
"story": 46,
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"chunk": 728,
"story": 54,
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"chunk": 729,
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"chunk": 730,
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"chunk": 733,
"story": 54,
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"chunk": 735,
"story": 54,
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"text": "Recite the brief you were given, word for word.",
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"text": "Admit plainly how junior you are.",
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{
"text": "Drop the brief and use your own common sense.",
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"savvy": "+",
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"text": "Roll up your sleeves and do the work yourself.",
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"standing": "-"
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},
{
"text": "Report back that the one to win over is not the one you were sent to beat.",
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29,
32,
35,
40,
41
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"Cutting In On The Bliss",
"Torchy Gets A Through Wire",
"Showing Gilkey the Way",
"When Skeet Had His Day"
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"chunk": 114,
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"chunk": 432,
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"chunk": 433,
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"chunk": 434,
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{
"chunk": 436,
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{
"chunk": 437,
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"chunk": 470,
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"chunk": 471,
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"chunk": 480,
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"chunk": 537,
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"chunk": 559,
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"text": "Slip away so someone is free to help from outside.",
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"relationships.boss_family": "+"
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{
"text": "Hurry them away before the police arrive.",
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},
{
"text": "Suggest a secret dodge that spares everyone a scene.",
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"savvy": "+",
"relationships.boss_family": "+",
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"text": "Stay as a witness, in case it turns ugly.",
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{
"text": "Tell the boss everything.",
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"relationships.boss": "+",
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"chunk": 50,
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"chunk": 455,
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"chunk": 456,
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"chunk": 465,
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"chunk": 466,
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"chunk": 467,
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"chunk": 469,
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"chunk": 557,
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"chunk": 558,
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"chunk": 561,
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"text": "Warn them to their face.",
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"text": "Let them hear the truth from the flatterer's own mouth.",
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"text": "Dig up everything on the flatterer first.",
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"text": "Take it to the boss and let him deal with it.",
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"text": "Say nothing; it is not your business.",
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8,
29,
41,
53
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"chunk": 116,
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"chunk": 117,
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"chunk": 564,
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"chunk": 714,
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"chunk": 715,
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"chunk": 719,
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"text": "Bundle them off with a vague story and no plan.",
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"text": "Scare them off with a danger you invent.",
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"text": "Stage a scene that makes them leave of their own accord.",
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"text": "Pass the problem on to someone you dislike.",
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"text": "Pay their fare to go far away.",
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15,
16,
27,
37
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"Late Returns On Popover",
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{
"chunk": 200,
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{
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"chunk": 362,
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"chunk": 365,
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"text": "Take the blame for them, and tell the boss their whole story.",
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"text": "Go to the boss at home and ask for the promotion outright.",
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"text": "Slip their proposal onto the boss's desk as if it came through channels.",
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"text": "Argue they are too valuable to lose.",
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"text": "Keep out of it; it is not your place.",
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14,
28,
43,
45
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"chunk": 178,
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"chunk": 581,
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"chunk": 614,
"story": 45,
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{
"chunk": 615,
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"chunk": 616,
"story": 45,
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"chunk": 617,
"story": 45,
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"text": "Mock them along with everyone else.",
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"relationships.outcast": "-"
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{
"text": "Stand up for them against the one bullying them.",
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"cheek": "+",
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{
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"relationships.outcast": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell them their work is good.",
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"relationships.outcast": "+",
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},
{
"text": "Stay out of it; it is only fun.",
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17,
22,
26
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"chunk": 291,
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"chunk": 299,
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"chunk": 343,
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{
"chunk": 344,
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{
"chunk": 345,
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"text": "Tell them bluntly what they are doing wrong.",
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"cheek": "+",
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},
{
"text": "Give them plain advice and a push.",
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"relationships.charge": "+",
"savvy": "+"
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{
"text": "Wrestle them into line.",
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"relationships.charge": "-",
"cheek": "+"
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},
{
"text": "Report honestly to whoever put you in charge, even if it costs you.",
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6,
7,
30,
34,
39,
44,
54
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"Keeping Tabs on Piddie",
"A Whirl with Kazedky",
"The Glad Hail For Torchy",
"How Whity Gunked The Plot",
"Breaking It to the Boss",
"Torchy Gets an Inside Tip",
"Some Hoop-la for the Boss"
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"chunk": 88,
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{
"chunk": 100,
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{
"chunk": 101,
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"chunk": 401,
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"chunk": 457,
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{
"chunk": 458,
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"chunk": 531,
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{
"chunk": 532,
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"chunk": 598,
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"chunk": 731,
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"chunk": 732,
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"text": "Get an old friend to deliver a fake message.",
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"savvy": "+",
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"text": "Ask an old acquaintance what the street says.",
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"text": "Trade on your old rank and its slang.",
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{
"text": "Pay for what they tell you.",
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"money": "-",
"savvy": "+"
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{
"text": "Promise them something back, and pay it.",
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3,
7,
11,
34,
39
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"A Whirl with Kazedky",
"Landing on a Side Street",
"How Whity Gunked The Plot",
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{
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{
"chunk": 36,
"story": 2,
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{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 2,
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{
"chunk": 38,
"story": 2,
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{
"chunk": 39,
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{
"chunk": 51,
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{
"chunk": 99,
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"chunk": 144,
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{
"chunk": 463,
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{
"chunk": 529,
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{
"chunk": 530,
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"chunk": 533,
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{
"text": "Pose as someone with business there.",
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"cheek": "+",
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},
{
"text": "Claim a powerful connection you do not have.",
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"text": "Find a cover story that suits the one you want to reach.",
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"savvy": "+",
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"text": "When the bluff walks into its owner, stall and signal for help.",
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"text": "Give up and go the proper way.",
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10,
41,
42
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"When Skeet Had His Day",
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{
"chunk": 60,
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{
"chunk": 67,
"story": 4,
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"chunk": 139,
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"chunk": 553,
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"chunk": 556,
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"text": "Neither confirm nor deny what they say about you.",
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"text": "Borrow the clothes and take the floor.",
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},
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"text": "Slip back into your real place before anyone asks.",
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"text": "Look straight through the people you came from.",
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{
"text": "Tell them plainly where you come from.",
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5,
10,
13,
26,
30,
41
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"Rung in with the Gold Spooners",
"In on the Oolong",
"Gladys In A Double Bill",
"The Glad Hail For Torchy",
"When Skeet Had His Day"
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"text": "Brazen it out and enjoy yourself.",
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"text": "Retreat to a corner and wait for it to end.",
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"standing": "-"
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Refuse what they offer you.",
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"standing": "+"
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{
"text": "Spend what you must to look the part.",
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"standing": "+"
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{
"text": "Find the one person there who treats you as an equal.",
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18,
36,
41
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{
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{
"chunk": 482,
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{
"text": "Study in every spare moment.",
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"relationships.friend": "+"
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Spend on a made-to-measure suit.",
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"money": "-",
"standing": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Pay for lessons so you will not shame yourself.",
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"money": "-",
"standing": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Smarten up quietly and daydream.",
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"standing": "+"
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Save your money; they can take you as you are.",
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"standing": "-"
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14,
19,
35,
36
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18,
30,
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"The Glad Hail For Torchy",
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{
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"text": "Greet them warmly in front of their crowd anyway.",
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"text": "Tell them how you feel before they go.",
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{
"text": "Wait until you can meet them as an equal.",
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19,
30,
31,
35,
36,
38,
42,
46,
49
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"Torchy Gets A Through Wire",
"The Up Call for Torchy",
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"Getting a Jolt from Westy",
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"text": "Answer every question about your pay and post honestly.",
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"text": "Give her advice so good she has to take it.",
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"text": "Let your new standing speak for you.",
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30,
31,
35,
40,
45
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31,
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"text": "Spend more than you can afford to outshine him.",
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"text": "Pack the rival off in another carriage.",
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"text": "Show him you bear no grudge.",
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15,
30,
36
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"Throwing the Line to Skid",
"The Glad Hail For Torchy",
"The Up Call for Torchy"
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{
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{
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51,
52,
53
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"Mr. Robert Gets a Slant",
"When Ella May Came By"
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28,
32,
40,
42,
51
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"text": "Call him spineless to his face.",
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"text": "Let him find his own nerve.",
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36,
37,
39,
47
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"chunk": 493,
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"chunk": 495,
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"text": "Refuse the deference and offer your hand.",
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"text": "Let yourself be ordered about as the boy again, and wait.",
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"text": "Let yourself feel like the indispensable one.",
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"text": "Prove yourself on the first real test.",
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20,
37,
44
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"chunk": 266,
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"story": 20,
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"text": "Quietly run down your own lead.",
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"text": "Tell the boss the expert is simply wrong.",
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"text": "Learn the subject overnight and argue it before the top.",
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"text": "Say nothing; the expert knows best.",
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"text": "Keep your doubt to yourself until you have proof.",
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29,
44
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"text": "Quietly undo the damage and say nothing.",
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"text": "Name the theft to their face.",
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"text": "Bargain: everything back, and the charge dropped.",
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"text": "Give them what they ask, to be rid of them.",
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"text": "Report it to the boss.",
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