Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven indir kitap bedava

Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warnt any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet dont make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sortlike Enckes and Halleys comets, for instanceit warnt anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. You couldnt rightly call it a race. It was as if the comet was a gravel-train and I was a telegraph despatch. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occasionally that was something like. We havent got any such cometsours dont begin. One night I was swinging along at a good round gait, everything taut and trim, and the wind in my favorI judged I was going about a million miles a minuteit might have been more, it couldnt have been lesswhen I flushed a most uncommonly big one about three points off my starboard bow. By his stern lights I judged he was bearing about northeast-and-by-north-half-east. Well, it was so near my course that I wouldnt throw away the chance; so I fell off a point, steadied my helm, and went for him.