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nose into the page or newspaper his eye will slowly, 

 gradually, but surely, be dragged, line by line, letter 

 by letter, up the page to the top of the column and 

 over the edge, and his eye will inevitably meet the 

 eye of the " watcher " fixed patiently upon him. 

 Animal magnetism ! It's no use ; he KNOWS you 

 MUST look at him ; he never stirs, he never speaks ; 

 he sits there, mute, asking for nothing, seeking 

 nothing. Oh, no ! Wishing for nothing. Only, you 

 will have to, and MUST, eventually, LOOK AT HIM ; 

 and herein lies his triumph ! And, the instant his 

 eye catches yours, there flashes out upon his face, as 

 from a lighthouse on the coast, suddenly such an 

 expression of abject misery and woe, want and 

 injured innocence, as no words -but mute appeals 

 can do justice to, dying away again as suddenly 

 the instant your eye is removed from him. In this 

 case the human eye and animal magnetism has 

 great and unconquerable effects, and it has even 

 been known to attract a boot-jack, half a brick, or 

 similar heavy bodies with great velocity to within 

 an ace of the " watcher's " head, accompanied with 

 much low and violent rumbling, as of bad language 

 and ill-temper of a furiously aggressive but sup- 

 pressed kind. Therefore, the more irregularly one's 

 doors are " let in," so much more is the " silent 

 watcher " checked off. 



