We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our levelbest, because I'd never struck a comet before that could lay overme, and so I was bound to beat this one or break something. Ijudged I had some reputation in space, and I calculated to keep it.I noticed I wasn't gaining as fast, now, as I was before, but stillI was gaining. There was a power of excitement on board the comet

In about a second I begun to see I'd woke up a pretty uglybegin to describe the way that monstrous craft begun to crashalong. And such another powwow--thousands of bo's'n's whistlesscreaming at once, and a crew like the populations of a hundredthousand worlds like ours all swearing at once. Well, I neverheard the like of it before.

Well, I boomed along another hundred and fifty million miles, andgot up abreast his shoulder, as you may say. I was feeling prettyfine, I tell you; but just then I noticed the officer of the deckcome to the side and hoist his glass in my direction. Straight offI heard him sing out--"Below there, ahoy! Shake her up, shake herup! Heave on a hundred million billion tons of brimstone!"

sailed along his coast for a little upwards of a hundred and fiftymillion miles, and then I could see by the shape of him that Ihadn't even got up to his waistband yet. Why, Peters, WE don'tknow anything about comets, down here. If you want to see cometsthat ARE comets, you've got to go outside of our solar system--where there's room for them, you understand. My friend, I've seencomets out there that couldn't even lay down inside the ORBITS of

sighted him, but he begun to grow bigger and bigger as I crept upon him. I slipped up on him so fast that when I had gone about150,000,000 miles I was close enough to be swallowed up in thephosphorescent glory of his wake, and I couldn't see anything forthe glare. Thinks I, it won't do to run into him, so I shunted toone side and tore along. By and by I closed up abreast of histail. Do you know what it was like? It was like a gnat closing upon the continent of America. I forged along. By and by... Continuar leyendo