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| | Commercial Ice Age |
 | | The spectacle is quite an interesting one, as it exhibits the modus operandi of a busy, and very lucrative industry, which owns one of the manifold concerns that gives employment to a large number of men during the winter months, providing, however, there is a favorable season. |
 | | The workmen muffled, and heads swathed into tippets, shivering and scurrying round with athletic animation, were compelled now and then in consequence of the severity of the weather to suspend work and hasten to a convenient shanty where in there was a fire glowing with an inviting warmth for the special comfort of the workmen. |
 | | The two nights previous had been intensely cold, so that it became an easy matter to flood the lake, which was frozen over, and thus increase the solidity and thickness of the ice to the requisite degree for cutting. |
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