The sign was neatly lettered on a white cardboard box propped on a coffee cup. Ten snowballs stood in two neat rows before it on the Times Square pavement.
"One dollar, one dollar," a young man in a knit cap and sunglasses was chanting.


There remained the mystery of what would possess anyone actually to buy a snowball. Many passersby clearly found the prospect hilarious. One woman laughed so hard she might have fallen down had she not grabbed a companion.

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