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Carl Sandburg - Ice HandlerCarl Sandburg - Ice Handler
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I know an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with     pearl buttons the size of a dollar, And he lugs a hundred-pound hunk into a saloon ice-     box, helps himself to cold ham and rye bread, Tells the bartender it`s hotter than yesterday and will be     hotter yet to-morrow, by Jesus, And is on his way with his head in the air and a hard     pair of fists. He spends a dollar or so every Saturday night on a two     hundred pound woman who washes dishes in the     Hotel Morrison. He remembers when the union was organized he broke     the noses of two scabs and loosened the nuts so the     wheels came off six different wagons one morning,     and he came around and watched the ice melt in the     street. All he was sorry for was one of the scabs bit him on the     knuckles of the right hand so they bled when he     came around to the saloon to tell the boys about it.
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