He shook his head sapiently to me, but seemed to be rocked by internal mirth.

"Now, wasn't that just like Halse ?" he muttered at length.
"What do you think the old Squire will say to this ?" I hazarded.
"Oh, not much, I guess," Addison replied, going on with his problem.
"The old gentleman doesn't think it is of much use to talk to him.
Halse, you know, flies all to pieces if he is reproved." In point of fact I do not believe the old Squire took the matter up with Halstead at all.

He did not come home until afternoon, and no one said much to him about what had happened during the morning.
But we had to procure a new churn immediately for the following Tuesday.
Old Mehitable was totally ruined.

The bottom and the lower ends of the chimes were warped and charred beyond repair.
Largely influenced by Addison's advice, grandmother Ruth consented to the purchase of one of the new crank churns.

For a year or more he had been secretly cogitating a scheme to avoid so much tiresome work when churning; and a crank churn, he foresaw, would lend itself to such a project much more readily than a churn with an upright dasher.