Halley's comets, for instance--it warn't anything but just a flashand a vanish, you see. You couldn't rightly call it a race. Itwas as if the comet was a gravel-train and I was a telegraphdespatch. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, Iused to flush a comet occasionally that was something LIKE. WEhaven't got any such comets--ours don't begin. One night I was