He was nearly lightnin' on superintending.
"Well, bye an' bye, up comes this yer quartz excitement.

Every body was into it--every body was pick'n' 'n' blast'n' instead of shovelin' dirt on the hill side--every body was put'n' down a shaft instead of scrapin' the surface.

Noth'n' would do Jim, but we must tackle the ledges, too, 'n' so we did.

We commenced put'n' down a shaft, 'n' Tom Quartz he begin to wonder what in the Dickens it was all about.

He hadn't ever seen any mining like that before, 'n' he was all upset, as you may say--he couldn't come to a right understanding of it no way--it was too many for him.