noon
Wealthy actually cried ; Ellen scolded a little ; Halstead made certain irreverent remarks ; while Gram sought to inculcate resignation in the abstract . It proved one of those profuse southerly rains , such as often occur in Maine during the summer season . We milked in the barn and put the cows out to pasture in the midst of the downpour , for it was a warm rain . `` No celebration to-day , '' remarked Addison ; but the Old Squire thought that it would slacken by noon and perhaps clear . All the morning it rained too hard even to go fishing . Addison went up to his room to read Audubon awhile . Halstead went out to the wagon-house and having appropriated an auger , draw-shave and hammer , took an umbrella and set off for the old cooper shop below the orchard .