Mother keeps milk in the ice box.
She likes to keep it cool and sweet.
The iceman passes every day with a big ice wagon.
When Mother wants ice, Betty puts up a card.
When the iceman sees it, he cries, “Whoa! whoa!”
The big horses stop.
The iceman jumps down from his wagon.
He brings in a big block of ice.
He puts it in the ice box, and Mother gives him a ticket.
The iceman goes back to his wagon.
He jumps in and drives away.
Once Bobby and Betty ran after the ice wagon.
Mother saw them and called them back.
“Don’t run after the ice wagon,” said Mother. “Play you have an ice
wagon, Bobby. Hitch Queen to your cart.”
[Illustration]
_For study and play_:
I was some ice,
So white and so nice,
But which nobody tasted;
And so it was wasted,
All that good ice!
—EDWARD LEAR