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The story goes like this. The "Master Piece" this particular time was a cerise-colored corduroy tan, called berets in 1929. The tan was made from scraps thoughtfully out in the aforementioned trunk after the making of the trousseau silk-lined corduroy robe. Hattie and little Buck surprised of the boys (Buck, Sam, and [[?]] anticipating their usual appreciation of How to Look Prosperous Though Poor. They were surprised all right, but not at the tan. The visit was a surprise, which seemed to have come at the most unexpected time. Hattie had been told that any chewing tobacco found in leather coats of pilots, was carried for students (or passengers who were so "ordinary" as to [[?]] the lousy stuff) to keep said students and passengers from getting sleepy during cross-country flying. The boys looked so queer, instead of [[?]], when [[?]] walked in, and Buck was such a strange color the moment for appreciation, as anticipated, was gone. Soon [[?]] usual wit was unusually sparkling and Sam's laugh more than spontaneous. To make a long story short, six years later Hattie learned that Buck had felt called upon to swallow the tobacco he had been chewing . Another amusing incident, explained five years later, [[?]]. One morning Buck left earlier than Sam and [[?]] Same arrived at The Shop, remember that numerous visitors of the day before had left a lot of half-smoked cigarettes around. on his arrival, he started picking these up, some from the floor and some from the benches, and imagine his surprise when Buck pops up from collecting some butts from the floor and they face each other, each holding butts! Buck said, "Can you imagine me getting low enough to snipe butts let alone a nice guy like you." The result of this, since [[?]] didn't smoke (nor chew nor drink) was that Sam and Buck took a vow that all butts found wore to be opened and the contents therein be disclosed to be dumped into one Prince Albert can, donate by S.J. Junkin from days of previous splendor to the communistic division between said E.J. and Buck, for smokes. 
The first injuries were in the doping of WACO Cootie. This was the name decided upon for the first ship. To bring out the color of the mahogany the boys used [[?]]. In the doping Buck got some of the [[?]] lye in his eye and fortunately, not in the pupil, so the sight was not injured. All the boys' fingers were burned so that fingernails curled upward incurring no end of discomfort. The propeller seemed to be an eternity coming. One day it finally arrived. In spite of it being a dark gloomy day, the three boys set out to the field out on the lake shore, the same field, the same high tension wires and the same deep ditch, to test their first endeavor. Buck being the only pilot, naturally did the testing. About five p.m. a friend called over the phone to say Buck had broken his nose in a forced landing. About an hour later Sam and Buck with friends, arrived in the friends' car. One carried the fleece-lined army boots, one carried the leather coat and one had Buck's suit. Hattie had been sitting by the window holding Buck II, who was then 15 months old. This sight suggested to her that all that was left to bring was the dead body. Same rushed past her down to the cellar and through all that followed the loud, heart-rendering sighs of Same were heard. Hattie started to shiver with the [[?]]. Buck, white as death, told her, "No, Buck wasn't dead, but hurt worse than they had thought at first. One of the other men took little Buck, whom Hattie had dropped, and [[?]] picked Hattie up in arms that shivered, and carried her up to her room, after telling the men folks to get the hot water bottle and heat some bricks. Composing herself so as to be able to see Buck without his noticing her reactions to the accident, Hattie was soon ready to be taken to the hospital where Buck was by the urgent Same who, despite his still streaming eyes, boosted up her spirits and on the trip to the hospital the two even found some laughter. 
As Hattie stepped over the doorsill into the room, on a white bed, was a gore of blood covering the head and chest of Buck. The light started to go out. There was a whir in Hattie's ears and Buck's words, "Won't you kiss me, Babe" and a grip of Sam's hand, one of Sam's beautiful smiles, the room stayed right up, the light was still on, the stench