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11

THE ICE-MAN!

The Fahrenheit was rising fast,
When down our area steps there passed,
A youth who bore, as in a vice,
A glorious lump of gleaming ice,—
“Ice! Rockland Ice!”
His glance was cool,—his brow above,
Serene and gentle as a dove,
And like the gong for dinner rung,
The tones of that stentorian tongue,
“Ice! Rockland Ice!”
 

What is more refreshing, during the warm days of summer, than a glass of Iced water? To supply this luxury, the Ice-man makes his appearance, with his cart, early in the morning. The supply of Ice, for New York, is chiefly brought from the Lakes in Rockland, and other counties, on the North River.

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