comet

first spanking
Papa had fixed some new screen on the door to keep the flies out and I would swing on it. One morning papa caught me and that was the first spanking he ever give me. I climb up on a big pile of wood that was piled beside the cook stove. I sat there a little while - then fainted away. When I come to, papa was walking the floor and calling - Katy, Katy wake up. That ended up with him buying me some cans of tomatoes and Post Toasties and wouldn't let the other kids eat them. That was the only spanking father give me till I was fourteen years old.

first meteorite
I saw my first meteorite one night just before dark. Milton and Jennie were milking the cows when a big ball of fire came over our heads. The cows started to run and bellow. We all watch it go down over the sand hill. Milton and Jennie went up on the hill to find it. It looked like it landed on top of the hill. They walked all over the hill but never found anything. Later in the year, I read where they found an old meteorite about one hundred miles back in the deserts.

haley's comet
It was about that same time that Haley's Comet was going to sweep the earth with its tail. Aunt Daphne, mother's baby sister, got scared and said if she was going to die it would be in Uncle Roy Cooper's arms. So papa took her to Uncle Roy in Colorado where he was watching sheep. I remember papa waking us kids all up in the middle of the night to watch Haley's Comet fly though the sky. It lasted about five minutes. I don't know how old I was - about 5 or 6 years.