Tosefta for Pesachim 110:1
גומרה בארבעה עשר אימתי בזמן שהתחיל בה קודם ארבעה עשר אבל לא התחיל בה קודם ארבעה עשר לא יתחיל בה בארבעה עשר אפילו צילצול קטן אפילו שבכה קטנה לצורך המועד אין שלא לצורך המועד לא הוא הדין דאפילו שלא לצורך נמי גמרינן והא קמ"ל דאפי' לצורך המועד מיגמר אין אתחולי לא
he may finish it on the fourteenth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even where it is customary not to do any work.');"><sup>1</sup></span> When is that? When he began it before the fourteenth; but if he did not begin it before the fourteenth, he must not begin it on the fourteenth, even a small girdle, even a small hair-net.
Tosefta Pesachim
And the Sages say, even in a place where they said that labor may not be performed from Passover Eve until midday [on the fourteenth of Nissan], three craftsmen may [nonetheless perform their] work: tailors, hairdressers, and launderers. The tailors, for [even] an ordinary person may sew in his customary way on the intermediate days of a Festival. The hairdressers, for a Nazirite and a metzora and someone who suffered a wound to the his head may cut their hair on the intermediate days of a Festival. The launderers, for someone coming from the seaside, or from other countries overseas may launder [their clothes] on the intermediate days of a Festival. Rabbi Yosei bar Rabbi Yehuda says, even shoemakers, for pilgrims [traveling by foot to Jerusalem] during the pilgrimage Festivals may repair their shoes and their sandals on the intermediate days of a Festival. Dung that is in the middle of [*--?--] they may may clear it to the sides. [Dung] that is in a barnyard or a courtyard -- they may take it out to the garbage heap. (*Note: The Tosefta here is defective. Minchat Bikkurim supplies "מבוי", i.e., "an alleyway.")
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