CANTO XXXI.

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Mr. Hunt now takes the Infernal Elevated Train and gets off at the district where editors are punished.

He finds them classified in his guide book and takes note of a few of them:

“Editors who never credited stolen articles.”

“Editors who threatened public men with abuse if they refused to do as they dictated.”

“Editors who were very careful not to publish disagreeable truths about people of wealth, and so-called ‘social station,’ but never hesitated to print anything about people outside this select circle.”

Huge red-hot waste baskets hold them, the worst offenders being at the bottom.

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MAKING THE BEST OF IT.

Bad Actor: “Well, anyway, there’s one comforting thing about this region; no matter how bad one acts, he can’t get a frost.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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