He was down on it, too, you bet you--he was down on it powerful -- 'n' always appeared to consider it the cussedest foolishness out.

But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements--somehow he never could abide'em.

You know how it is with old habits.

But by an' by Tom Quartz begin to git sort of reconciled a little, though he never could altogether understand that eternal sinkin' of a shaft an' never pannin' out any thing.

At last he got to comin' down in the shaft, hisself, to try to cipher it out.