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

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!"

that I wouldn't throw away the chance; so I fell off a point,steadied my helm, and went for him. You should have heard me whiz,and seen the electric fur fly! In about a minute and a half I wasfringed out with an electrical nimbus that flamed around for milesand miles and lit up all space like broad day. The comet wasburning blue in the distance, like a sickly torch, when I first

Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get alittle anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all thattime, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over thelot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as asteady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle likethe loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart