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Chapter 10 And pray, good woman, after all, will you take upon you to say, it may not be the childs hip, as well as the childs head?Tis most certainly the head, replied the midwife. Because, continued Dr. Slop (turning to my father) as positive as these old ladies generally aretis a point very difficult to knowand yet of the greatest consequence to be known; because, Sir, if the hip is mistaken for the headthere is a possibility (if it is a boy) that the forceps. . .. What the possibility was, Dr. Slop whispered very low to my father, and then to my uncle Toby.There is no such danger, continued he, with the head.No, in truth quoth my fatherbut when your possibility has taken place at the hipyou may as well take off the head too. It is morally impossible the reader should understand thistis enough Dr. Slop understood it;so taking the green baize bag in his hand, with the help of Obadiahs pumps, he trippd pretty nimbly, for a man of his size, across the room to the doorand from the door was shewn the way, by the good old midwife, to my mothers apartments. |
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