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but 'twould surely break me back and me with the missus and five little ones to think of. What's to be done?"

What, indeed? Again, it was Tineey who solved the delemna [[dilemma]]. "I've got it," she said. "Hugh and Dick."

Hugh Reynolds and Dick Coleman were graduates of Stanford who now were working in New York. They had arranged to take us to dinner that night. It was late afternoon and they would soon be appearing. Presently, the doorbell rang. I said they were just in time to do a "teeny, little favor" for me and led them downstairs to the crate. Somehow, grunting and perspiring, they wrestled the heavy box up flights of stairs. They were reasonably cheerful about it. 

Now the decision with respect to locating the loom somewhere in the apartment could no longer be postponed. It came down, at last, to the one bedroom, which Tinney was occupying. She could barely squeeze past the loom to get into bed and to reach the wardrobe closet. When I wove at night, she had an alternative, stay  awake while I finished,