Show mark twain on oil the comet perhaps somebody would like to hear mark trains twains ideas on the comet A correspondent of the N Y sun stilt reports having found him on the roof of his house with along a long polo pole in his hand watching the flaming meteor and expressing himself himself as a follows they arc are all wrong about the tail ta il ive ciphered on oil that tail until I understand every inch of it absurd to suppose that the tail solid and andi pretty retty tough too do you imagine that this comet could go bulging bui ing through space at the rate of miles a minute without knocking spots out of a tail that waa was vapor tie a fog bank on to the rear end of the new york and boston express start her off at an ail even forty fort milca an hour and see how long long your fog bank will travel in company with your locomotive you know they ask us to swallow this infernal nonsense about the comets tail thil sly 11 y observations of this thi s fello wand also of coggins coggi as comet seven years ago have convinced me that comets tails are fastened on tight and are of a fibrous and durable nature like hartford beefsteak CAM and what do you propose to do with your Y u pole great csisar ca ar with a tail ail t forty two million miles mil es long I oil n three million niles thick and tolu tough all as whip leather whisking about in ift the rake of that p piratical deal craft every ever time she lacks overhead dont you see the necessity nee mity m ity of keeping a coolheaded cool headed and muscular man on oil deck leek here beige to fend off in case the cussed thing whisks this way w now kidwill i HE IE chowders in the pot and the days are getting hot and we all begin to swelter with a sn elt while the crimson lemonade Thron ill r gli h a s straw tm enchants the maid who ai displays p a bunch of flowers 11 th at i t lier belt b e t ls |