Mr. Hunt holds a long discourse with Clawquick, who claims to be the oldest Demon in the region.
He remembers well the terrible cold-snap of the year 1422. All Hell was frozen over. There was skating on the River Styx for several months and two thousand miles of steam-pipe burst.
THE OLDEST INHABITANT.
THE PUBLIC SPITTER.
CANTO LXI.
Mr. Hunt now looks down on a spacious valley in the center of which there stands a large stage.