I made a very good one; which was, to creep down, all the way down the back stairs, and hide behind the cellar door, and slip out and escape when the iceman came at dawn, while he was inside filling the refrigerator; then I would hide all day, and start on my journey when night came; my journey towell, anywhere where they would not know me and betray me to the master.

" "And then the icemen come with their wagons, get the ice and bring it to us," finished Mab.

"As a chauffeur I'd be a good iceman.

But, say, what's on the carpet, as the iceman said to the thrush?" "Nothing.

" His sentence was thirty days in default of three hundred dollars, and by two o'clock he was on the boat to the Island, and by three he had discarded the blue shirt and red suspenders of an iceman for the gray stiff cloth of a prisoner.

I'll give him to the iceman.

She melted, visibly, like a fragment left on the curb by the iceman, whenever Paulaturned the current on.

One of our porters was short-legged and a bad iceman; the other was a daring fellow, and he now threw the knapsack from his shoulders, came to the edge of the crevasse, looked into it, but drew back again.

The milkman and the iceman and the butcher boy used to hold daily conversation with her.

She would Frisk his Wardrobe every day or two, looking for Evidence, and he would compel her to Itemize her Accounts so that he might be sure she was not giving Jewelry to the Iceman.

Tell her right at the start the worst about the butcher, and the grocer, and the iceman, and the milkman, and the plumber, and the gas-meterthat they want their money and that it has to come out of that little roll of bills.

Two grocers going to the city in the morning train agree that they will charge seven dollars a barrel for flour during the ensuing week; two icemen, to harvest only a thousand tons of ice.