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In fact, he got a carriage and took me
to one himself. The oculist said that the treatment would require at
least three months; so my employer told me I had better come home, and
that when I recovered I could have my place back again. He is a fine,
generous-hearted man and I should be very miserable if I thought I was
going to lose my place."
"But what did the oculist say was the trouble with your eyes?" Quincy
asked.
"He didn't tell me," replied Alice. "He may have told my employer. He
gave me some drops to put in my eyes three times a day; and a little
metal tube with a cover to it like the top of a pepper box; on the other
end is a piece of rubber tubing, with a glass mouthpiece attached to it"
"How do you use that?" asked Quincy.
Alice continued, "I hold the pepper box in front of my wide-opened eye;
then I put the glass mouthpiece in my mouth and blow, for a certain
length of time. I don't know how long it is. It seems as though a
thousand needles were driven into my eyeball. The drops make me cry;
but the little tube brings the tears in torrents.


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