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One hot August night when Buck opened his mail he found two documents, one was a notice of the final dissolution and surrender of the charter of the Weaver Aircarft Company. A check fell unnoticed by Buck, to the floor. Realizing that Buck was in a "spin", Hattie got him to sit down, his mother ran for water and soon Buck rose abruptly, said "I'm all right" and talked of other things. The paper on the floor was a check for a thousand dollars, covering Buck's share in the assets of The Weaver Air-Craft Company. Down came the castle of dreams. *See page 131 for next paragraph--
The thousand dollars nevertheless, had its good points. This looked to Hattie like a chance for her and Big and Little Buck to set up housekeeping no matter how humble, independently and by themselves. The city was no place for Little Buck. A hot climate would have been the thing after the second attack of bronchial pneumonia of Little Buck's but it was too far to walk. Several weeks were spent by Hattie, carrying Little Buck, then four, out through the western suburbs of Chicago, hunting for a place to live. Poverty lived independently, had no horrors for Hattie, but a sense of moral obligation and an inability to be inconsiderate of others the under comfortable conditions, most certainly did. When a student has a bad forced landing, which takes the heart out of him, a wise instructor sticks him right back into the whip and makes him fly again, kill or cure, so Buck in this bad forced landing needed all the tests of responsibility and moral courage. It was very difficult to do. There was no fear in the heart of Hattie so great as that her faith in Buck should be found wanting or misplaced, in his ability to continue the responsibilities in life which he had assumed. To many and then at that time, to herself, Hattie couldn't see why it was so difficult to work at something else until aviation jobs brought paydays closer together.
Weavers moved out to Lagrange, Illinois. Little Buck was sick with bad tonsils, which had not been removed because he was not yet five. After his fifth birthday the weather and late summer seemed to make impossible the conditioning of Little Buck for a tonsillectomy. Little Buck ran a temperature for three months. Big Buck was then working for the Yackey Aircraft Company in Maywood. The salary was regular and life a bit more comfortable. The bills were larger than they had ever been and were paid promptly. Buck had a series of boils and a pain which grew to be constant in his back. While Weavers were living in Lagrange the Atlas Educational Film Company featured Buck in a six reel feature with Mahlon Hamilton and Barney Sherry, who had just returned from playing the role of the father in "Romola".