[Illustration] [Illustration: “MASHERS.”] _CANTO XVII._ Consulting his map Mr. Hunt chooses a road that leads down to the gulf where slow people learn a lesson in activity. His guide book explains who a few of the slow people are. The merchant who readily agrees to deliver goods at a specified time and invariably fails to do so. The person who blocks a line of people at a railway ticket office while asking needless questions. The business man who spends three hours at lunch knowing that his partner cannot leave the office until he returns. The explorer inspects the machinery that is devised for the punishment of these individuals and then journeys on his way. [Illustration] [Illustration: SLOW PEOPLE MADE ACTIVE.] _CANTO XVIII._ Passing through a gloomy ravine, Mr. Hunt’s curiosity is aroused by a sound of fiendish revelry. Following the direction of the noise he comes into that region which, according to his guide book, is occupied by the “fools of success.” Here he finds the man who climbed up in the world and then forgot his friends. “As a cat clings to a tree trunk,” says the poet, “while dogs dance ’round with laughing tongues,” so this malefactor hangs high up a spike-covered pole, while “fiends make merry at his sorry plight.” Keeping well out of view the explorer continues his travels. [Illustration] [Illustration: HE CLIMBED UP IN THE WORLD AND THEN FORGOT THE FRIENDS WHO HELPED HIM CLIMB.] _CANTO XIX._ While cautiously proceeding down a smoke-swept region of the third section, Mr. Hunt sees the Limitless Express of the Grand Bump Railroad shrieking and rocking on its way to the bottomless pit. [Illustration] [Illustration: NOT A PLEASURE EXCURSION.] _CANTO XX._ Mr. Hunt crosses an aqueduct and finds himself in a district where people are tormented who have defrauded or abused others by the use of hypnotic power. It appears that the Demons have the power of hypnotism themselves and treat their victims as the latter treated others while on earth. [Illustration] [Illustration: FATE OF A HYPNOTIST.] _CANTO XXI._ The poet relates the punishment of such as were too suspicious. Here he finds the man who suspects that everybody is trying to cheat him, and also the man who thinks that every philanthropist has pecuniary reasons for his good deeds. These and many others are turned into a rocky region to be chased and tormented by strange animals called Bunklefrights and Snoopflaps. These animals have large, piercing eyes, and sharp-pointed tails and toe nails with which they prick their victims, laughing the while with a peculiar sound that reminds Mr. Hunt of a violent bronchial cough. [Illustration] [Illustration: HE WAS TOO SUSPICIOUS.] _CANTO XXII._