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of blood and self were forgotten and there were still three boys to build Wacos. Some two months later Buck was sure his eyesight had been spared and though one eye did not want to track it eventually did but in the last year of Buck's life it bothered him so it is doubtful if today he could pass the physical requirements for his annual F.A.I license. Within that year there seemed to be a constant festering of the broken nose and cheekbone. The follicles in his nose were completely wiped off meaning the loss of smell forever. Buck was 24. Five different times the nose had to be opened to eliminate little slivers of ply wood from the WACO Cootie, which evidently had become deeply embedded in the crash. The crash was caused first, by the motor conking out necessitating a forced landing over the field which was completely hidden in a dense fog. The fog had settled while the boys in their over-anxiety to test the ship faxx  had neglected to recognize the fact that a haze, which was then apparent, would naturally become a dense fog. The result was, by instinct, Buck tried to locate the field and miss tension wires. To guess in which direction the ditch was, and land. He missed  the high tension wires, landed just a little too far over, hit the ditch, nosed the ship over and threw his fine face against the cowling. In later years when a post-mortem revealed that Buck died from intestinal injuries and adhesions, Sam also declared it was from this same crash. 

The boys started to fix Jennie up for passenger carrying so the company could exist. Somehow the amount required was gotten to recover one of the wings. When it was about done Sam's cigarette ashes dropped on it and it went up in smoke, so we needed two more wings. 

Weevers moved in to an inexpensive upstairs apartment with one of those land ladies that rivals Parthy Ann Hawks had made famous by Eliis Ferber in the show Boat. Buck II acquired the whooping cough in its most virulent form which added nicely to all the difficulties. Sam and Bruck moved into a building where it became a constant warfare of Same and Bruck versus Bats. most of the humor thereafter was provided by sparkling, if ratty (review) of "How to Get Some Sleep in the Opera House Building Without the Bats Walking Over you." this is truthful testimony to suppress faith in Commercial Aviation and the WACOS that were going to show the "cook-eyed" world what a really good aeroplane ought to be like. Weevers stood "Parthy" as long as they could end tried to find even less expensive quarters. The result was an upstairs in an old fashioned house in back of a smelly old barn. It really was an attic. The remark was made at the time by one of the boys that all genius go its real start in attics anyhow and if hardships would not be avoided the attic was the logical place to have started anyhow. Finances kept dwindling. Nobody believed in aviation evidently or youth or courage as applied to aviation, at least not enough to loan any finance and one of the points to be demonstrated in building WACOS was to convince the world personel and business honesty could be synonymous. The apartment, as we humorlously called it, had a living room, two beds, and a combination of kitchen, sink, and bathroom. This atmosphere was to become a moral enemy and there was not time for such so Hattie used a sereen, a pair of candle sticks and some Madaire linens from that same old trunk that which was dubbed from then on "The Treasure Chest" Houdini himself would have found his bag of tricks meagre compared to the treasures the trunk always gave up and always just in time to turn "near tears" and despair into humor and railory. One good laugh all together was poison to discouragement. Same and Bruck moved into the other bedroom. The mattress proved to be warmer with an old comforter between it and the floor and promised army blankets "did their stuff" 

The WACO Cootie was rebuilt to a biplane and flown successfully.