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This story is called The Ice Cube Club by Phil Shapiro, recorded by LibraryCall. Some people collect stamps. Some people collect baseball cards. Some people collect dolls. And some people collect ice cubes. You might not have heard about the ice cube collectors before, but they're really not so strange as they sound. You might even run into some ice cube collectors if you visit Atlanta, Georgia in the winter. You see Atlanta, Georgia is a southern city. And southern cities don't get too much snow.

WHY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS LIVES IN THE WATER Many years ago, the Hippopotamus, whose name was Isantim, was one of the biggest kings on the land; he was second only to the Elephant. The Hippo had a wife, of whom he was very fond. Now and then he used to give a big feast to the people, but a curious thing was that, although everyone knew the Hippo, no one, except his wife, knew his name. At one of the feasts, just as the people were about to sit down, the Hippo said, “You have come to feed at my table, but none of you know my name.