From b0a83bbee324d04075ba31e5519d5ad0cdd448b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kestrel Gregorich-Trevor Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 17:28:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Encyclopedia Entry: Ice Box. --- dat/data.base | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 40038919a..42307c3ea 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -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,