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"And then the icemen come with their wagons, get the ice and bring it to us," finished Mab. "I've seen them." "That's right, little lady!" said the foreman with a laugh. And sometimes ice comes to the city by a boat, instead of in freight cars, and the men with wagons go down to the boat-dock to get the cold, frozen cakes.
"And who's this wants more help until her husband's profession picks up again?" asked Percival. "Oh, that's a poor little woman I helped. They call her husband 'the Terrible Iceman." "But this is just the season for icemen!" "Well," confessed his mother, with manifest reluctance, "he's a prize-fighter or something." Percival gasped.
And at two places sharp-tongued women would not allow him to enter, frankly stating that icemen were too dirty creatures to allow inside the door of a respectable house; the women received their ten-cent cubes in pans and slammed the door in his face. And through all this Farr preserved his smile.
So, it is an offence under most State anti-trust laws, as it was at the common law, to fix the price of an article that is restraint of trade or to limit the output. Two grocers going to the city in the morning train agree that they will charge seven dollars a barrel for flour during the ensuing week; two icemen, to harvest only a thousand tons of ice.
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