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@@ -2501,6 +2501,16 @@ hunter
 	Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
 	Brother, I go to my lair to die.
 		[ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ]
+ice box
+	Ice, white ice, like a winding-sheet, sheathing each smoke-grimed wall;
+	Ice on the stove-pipe, ice on the bed, ice gleaming over all;
+	Sparkling ice on the dead man’s chest, glittering ice in his hair,
+	Ice on his fingers, ice in his heart, ice in his glassy stare;
+	Hard as a log and trussed like a frog, with his arms and legs outspread.
+	I gazed at the coffin I’d brought for him, and I gazed at the gruesome dead,
+	And at last I spoke: "Bill liked his joke; but still, goldarn his eyes,
+	A man had ought to consider his mates in the way he goes and dies."
+		[ The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, by Robert W. Service ]
 ice devil
 	Ice devils are large semi-insectoid creatures, who are
 	equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,