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We wish to invert the poles of the body, and send the magnetism of the brain to the feet." Miss Bowyer now took out a small silver cross and held it up before the child a little above the natural range of vision. "Will you look at this, little boy?" she said. She did her best to make her naturally unsympathetic voice persuasive, even to pronouncing the last word of her entreaty "baw-ee."
But the "little baw-ee" was faint with sickness, and he only lifted his eyes a moment to the trinket, and then closed the eyelids and turned his face toward his mother's bosom. "Come, little baw-ee. Look at this, my child. Isn't it pretty? Little baw-ee, see here!"
But the little baw-ee wanted rest, and he showed no signs of having heard Miss Bowyer's appeal, except that he fretted with annoyance after each sentence she addressed to him. "That is bad," said Miss Bowyer, seeing that Tommy would not look.
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