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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
We would like to thank our families for their understanding and support of our aca
demic and clinical work by dedicating this edition to: Jeanette, Christopher, David,
and Ana Hung and to Debbi, Amanda, Ryan, and Teddy Murphy. We also dedicate
this edition to the tireless efforts of all who teach airway management. We are grateful
for their commitment to the prevention of death and disability related to airway man
agement failure.
CON TEN TS
Foreword ........................................................................................xix
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
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AIRWAY TECHNIQUES
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viii Contents
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
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CON TRIBUTORS
xiii
xiv Contri b utors
Ban C. H. Tsui, Dip Eng, BSc(Math), BSc(Pharm), David T. Wong, MD, FRCP(C)
MSc(Pharm), MD, FRCP(C), PG Dip Echo Associate Professor
Professor of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology, Preoperative and Pain Toronto Western Hospital
Medicine University of Toronto
Stanford University School of Medicine Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stanford, California Chapters 14, 32
Chapter 48
xvi i i Contri butors
Although the practice of anesthesia professionals and others A particular strength of this book is the numerous descrip
who do airway management is full of unexpected challenges, tions of airway management alternatives and their pros and
perhaps nothing strikes more fear in our hearts than a patient cons in a wide variety of specific clinical situations. This is based
with a difficult airway. Unlike other events, which may be on the concept-described in its own chapter-of context
limited to certain narrow sub-specialties, challenging airway sensitive airway management; this ties in very strongly with
management occurs across nearly all domains of patient care, human factors and algorithms because every situation is indeed
all patient ages, and many sites of care such as perioperative, different. The approach of high-reliability organizations is to
emergency department, ward settings, as well as in unusual sites standardize where possible, but to remain flexible and resilient
such as pre-hospital or combat casualty care. Hence, books such as circumstances demand. Even for readers who do not usually
as this are vital as contextual compilations of up-to-date infor work in some of the settings described, the well-articulated syn
mation on approaches and techniques for the myriad needs of thesis of the processes of airway assessment, evaluation of the
patients for oxygenation and ventilation. Most simply put, the overall situation, and choice of options will help everyone to
most fundamental goal of airway management is to accomplish hone their decision-making skills whatever their usual setting.
what for most patients is routine, but for some is so elusive, In fact, these case discussions are a simple form of "simula
which is-as one of my supervising attending and later faculty tion" by storytelling-as clinicians hear or read of a colleague's
colleague (Mervyn Maze) put it years ago, to "get some green tough case, they simulate in their own heads what they would
gas in the right hole [U.S . oxygen color code is green] ." This think or do in a similar situation. Such case studies thus natu
spirit is exemplified in the modern evolution from the notion of rally dovetail with the chapter on the use of simulation to teach,
"can't intubate, can't ventilate" to "can't intubate, can't oxygen practice, and hone skills of airway management-with simula
ate" emphasizing that oxygenation comes first with ventilation tion techniques ranging from simple procedural task trainers
as important, but still secondary. to full-blown interprofessional mannequin-based simulations.
As noted in the Preface, the third edition of this book con This book has already stood the test of time, but the third
tains some important new information and new chapters. I edition offers a fully modern view of the complexities and
am particularly pleased by the addition of a chapter on human nuances of this life-threatening and life-saving arena of clini
factors and airway management. Over the last few decades we cal care. The authors, contributors, and I share the hope that
have collectively recognized that all the clinical knowledge or through the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors con
technical dexterity in the world can come to no avail with veyed by this book the rightful fear of the difficult airway will
out appropriate design and use of equipment, systems, pro be surmounted by mastery and expertise, leading to the preser
cesses, and teamwork. Another key tenet of human factors is vation or rescue of uncounted hearts, brains, and lives.
the importance of cognitive scientist Don Norman's concept of
putting "knowledge in the world" rather than just relying on David M. Gaba, MD
"knowledge in the head." The creation of a variety of standard Associate Dean for Immersive & Simulation-based Learning
protocols for airway management, and their representation in Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine
various graphical cognitive aids, is now a well-accepted and Stanford School of Medicine
critical aspect of modern airway management preparation and Staff Physician and Founder & Co-Director,
execution. Thus, the chapter on the algorithms that describes Patient Simulation Center
and compares the many different protocols, mnemonics, and VA Palo Alto Health Care System
graphics is particularly useful. No one protocol will suit all cli Palo Alto, California
nicians and all sites so knowing their individual strengths and
weaknesses is important.
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PREFACE
Since the last edition of our textbook, strategies and guidelines emphasized the importance of early front of neck access using
in managing the difficult and failed airway from the American open cricothyrotomy in the adult population.
Society of Anesthesiologists, the Canadian Airway Focus This edition is divided into ten sections: the first section
Group, the Difficult Airway Society in the United Kingdom, consists of the foundational information in airway manage
and other organizations have been updated and revised using ment; the second section reviews airway devices and techniques;
the currently available evidence. These revised recommenda the third to the ninth sections discuss airway management in
tions for the management of the difficult and failed airway are different clinical settings, including prehospital care, in the
reflected in all chapters of this edition of the textbook includ Emergency Department, the Intensive Care Unit, the operat
ing the new chapters. For example, two chapters (Chapters 6 ing room, the Post Anesthetic Care Unit, as well as other parts
and 34) were added to this edition to address "human factors" of the hospital; and the last section highlights practical issues
as they relate to the stresses and strains of difficult and failed in airway management. A number of new chapters and clinical
airway management. The Difficult Airway Society guidelines cases have been added to this new edition. As indicated above,
specifically acknowledge the importance of human factors in two chapters have been added to discuss human factors in air
crisis resource management. Interpreted in context, the appli way management. To avoid confusion related to "front of neck"
cation of the four basic methods of oxygenation (bag-mask access, a tracheotomy chapter has been added to this edition.
ventilation, use of extraglottic devices, tracheal intubation, In addition, chapters discussing the management of patients
and front of neck access) remains the most logical approach with the aspiration of gastric contents, obstructive sleep apnea,
for managing a failed airway. Furthermore, the National Audit tracheal stenosis requiring jet-ventilation, and airway manage
Project 4 (NAP4) and other studies have consistently identified ment under combat conditions have been added to this edition.
difficulties associated with needle (Seldinger technique) crico Videos depicting all airway management techniques are
thyrotomy such that it has become clear that when faced with a available at http://DifficultAirwayVideos.com. Bag mask
"cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate" (CICO) situation, surgical ventilation, topical anesthesia of the upper airway, and open
(open) cricothyrotomies are much more successful than needle cricothyrotomy videos have been added to this edition.
or Seldinger cricothyrotomies. Many chapters of this edition
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ACKNOWLEDGMEN TS
We would like to thank all the contributing authors for making assistance, Christopher Hung and David Hung for the production
this book possible. In addition, we would like to thank all the of the images and videos. We also like to thank all of the McGraw
associate editors (with rwo additional associate editors) for their Hill editorial and production staff for rheir continuing support.
tireless efforts to ensure that the information in this book is clear Orlando Hung, MD, FRCP(C)
and accurate. We wish to thank Sara Whynot for her editorial Michael F. Murphy, MD, FRCP(C)
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION.................................. 2 complications in the operating oom (OR), critical care units, and
emergency dep� nts leading to death, brain damage, emergency
INCIDENCE OF DIFFICULT AND FAILED AIRWAY.. 3 surgical airway,<or\mexpected ICU admission.5•6 NAP4 reinforced
STANDARD OF CARE. .................... 4
the findings 0f.the ational Reporting and Learning System in the
United Kingdom �hat found 18% of 1085 airway management
DEVELOPMENT OF DIRECT complications in ICU over a 2-year period (2005 to 2007) were
LARYNGOSCOPIC INTUBATION . 5 directly related to the act of intubation.7
t is critically important to recognize that the single most
DEFINITIONS OF DIFFICULT AND FAILED AIRWAYS ..
important factor leading to a failed airway is the failure to predict
PREDICTION OF DIFFICULT AND FAILED AIRWAY ...... 9 d-ie aifficult airway.3.4 ,s Other factors that can make airway man
agement challenging are human factors as described in Chapter 6.
SUMMARY ....... Screening tests intended to predict difficult or impossible BMV
and laryngoscopic intubation are unable to predict success or
SELF-EVALUATION QUESTIONS.
failure with any degree of certainty in otherwise normal patients.
For this reason, the terms "reassuring" and "non-reassuring" have
been coined to describe one's summative assessment of the vari
ous operations associated with airway management (e.g., BMV,
EGO, laryngoscopy and intubation, and surgical airway).9 It is
because of this "reliability gap" that airway practitioners need to
INTRODUCTION be prepared to manage an airway predicted to be difficult appro
priately (e.g., awake technique) and to resort to surgical airway
''Airway management" may be defined as the application of ther management in the event that nonsurgical techniques faiJ.9·11
apeutic interventions that are intended to effect gas exchange in The fundamental dilemma facing the airway practitioner is to
patients who are unable to do it for themselves. Gas exchange predict if the airway is "reassuring" or "non-reassuring." The task
is fundamental to this definition.1 A number of devices and is to identify non-challenging versus challenging airways employ
techniques are commonly employed in health care settings to ing tools with poor predictive value alone and in combination. As
achieve this goal. These include the use of bag-mask-ventilation mentioned above, theASA Guidelines have used the terms "reassur
(BMV), extraglottic devices (EGOs), oral or nasal endotracheal ing" and "non-reassuring." Huitink and Bouwman12 have recently
intubation (ETI), and invasive or surgical airway techniques. advanced the proposition that a trained practitioner should be able
The failure to adequately manage the airway has been identified to manage a patient with a reassuring airway (they use the term
as a major factor leading to poor outcomes in anesthesia, critical care, "basic airway") employing basic airway management techniques
emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and emergency medical (BMV and ETI) after proper training. Even more advanced airway
services (EMS).2·3 Adverse respiratory events constituted the largest rescue techniques (e.g., EGO) in these patients are expected to be
single cause of injury in the ASA Closed Claims Project.4 The 4th relatively easy because the anatomy is normal. Conversely, they
National Audit Project (NAP4) conducted in the United Kingdom maintain that the less reassuring the airway, the greater the need to
over a 1-year period of time identified major airway management prepare for failure. A very common sense approach!
Eva l u ation of t h e Ai rway 3
This chapter deals with the identification of the difficult and life-threatening if gas exchange cannot be provided expeditiously
failed airway, particularly in an emergency, in which case evalu and adequately by other means. Furthermore, the alternative air
ation and management must be done concurrently in a com way technique employed must have the highest degree of success
pressed time frame and canceling the case or delaying airway in the practitioner's skill set. It is inappropriate to make random
management is not an option. disorganized attempts to manage the airway in the hope that one
Successful airway management is generally governed by four of the airway techniques might work. Rather, one should have
interrwined factors that constitute the "context" in which that a planned strategy (see the algorithms in Chapter 2) including
airway is managed (see Chapter 7) : invasive techniques such as cricothyrotomy. 1 1•16•17
• A clinical situation of varying urgency, venue, and resources
Caveat:
• Patient factors including airway anatomy and vital organ
system reserve
Failure to Evaluate the Airway and Predict Difficulty is the
• Available airway resources
Single Most Important Factor Leading to a Failed Airway.
• Skills of the airway practitioner
(ASA Closed Claims Database)4
Because the airway practitioner must choose a method of airway
management from an array of techniques, precision of language This assumes that the practitioner acts on the prediction and
and communication is essential. Success or failure to effect gas selects the most appropriate technique.
exchange in an apneic patient may occur with any single method:
• Bag-mask-ventilation I NC I D E NCE OF D I F F I C U LT A N D
• Extraglottic device ventilation FAI LED AI RWAY
• Direct laryngoscopy or DL (e.g., straight or curved laryngo
scope blades) • How Common Are the Difficult and
• Indirect laryngoscopy (e.g. , video-laryngoscopy [VL] , flexible Failed Airway?
endoscopy) Bag-mask-ventilation, the use of EGDs, ETI, and surgical air
• Emergency oxygenation and ventilation techniques (e.g. , way management constitute the four primary avenues by which
Ventrain'M or Manujet'M) gas exchange is provided in the event patients are unable to do
• Invasive surgical airway (e.g., cricothyrotomy) so adequately for themselves. In each category, difficulty and
Airway practitioner may find any of these methods "diffi failure may be encountered. Failure of all four, ordinarily, leads
cult," and difficulty with one does not necessarily indicate that to death or brain damage.
another will be difficult though there tends to be a relation Until recently, the success or failure of airway management
ship. 13' 14 Strategies to identifY difficult BMV, difficult ventila has been defined in terms of BMV and orotracheal intuba
tion employing an LMA, difficult DL and intubation, difficult tion. The introduction of EGDs and the heightened profile of
VL, and difficult surgical airway will identifY predictors unique cricothyrotomy have broadened such concepts. Fortunately, tra
to the method (e.g., surgical airway would be difficult in a cheal intubation is usually straightforward, particularly in the elec
patient with an anterior neck hematoma or tumor mass) , and tive setting of the OR, though it should be realized that tracheal
predictors associated with some of the other methods (e.g., intubation can be performed in many different ways with direct or
male sex) or all of the other methods (e.g. , history of neck and indirect techniques and each technique has its own complication
upper airway radiation therapy or the application of cricoid and failure rates. The same cannot be said for venues outside of
pressure) . This expands on the definition of difficult as pro the OR where airways are often anything but "straightforward."
mulgated by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Airways that are difficult to manage are fairly common in anes
beyond difficult BMV and intubation to include the complete thesia, emergency medicine, critical care, and EMS practice, with
array of methods that may be employed to manage an airway. 10 some estimates as high as 20% of all emergency intubations.9-1 2•18-2 1
Any method may fail in which case the terminology "failed However, the incidence of intubation failure is quite uncommon
BMY," "failed ETI," or "failed EGD" may be employed. (ranging 0.5% to 2.5%), and the disastrous situation of being
Conventionally, if all of these methods fail the airway is called unable to intubate or ventilate rarely occurs (0. 1 o/o to 0.05%) . 2•18-26
a "failed airway," and is equated with a "cannot intubate, can This translates to a "can't intubate, can't oxygenate" failure rate of
not oxygenate" (CICO) airway. 1 1 In the past, this situation has about 1 : 1 000 to 1 :2000 patients in a general surgical population.
been called "cannot intubate, cannot ventilate" (CICV) , though The incidence is strikingly higher in the parturient undergoing
CI CO is more accurate and currently more commonly employed. cesarean section (1 :280), an almost tenfold increase. 27-29 Further,
For more clarity, a failed intubation defined narrowly as the the gold standard awake flexible bronchoscopic intubation also has
failure to intubate the trachea on three attempts9·15 (the DAS a defined failure rate as high as 1 3%.30
20 1 5 Guidelines permit one additional attempt by an expert:
3+ 1) 1 1 may not constitute a failed airway if one is able to affect • How Do We Avoid Airway Management
gas exchange with BMV or with an EGD. However, intubation Failu re?
failure ought to conjure a sense of urgency and mandates the Although circumstances can vary widely, the expectation is the
airway practitioner to rapidly switch to a failed airway manage same: timely, effective airway management executed without
ment sequence or drill because such a situation may become patient injury. In circumstances of multiple trauma, facial or
4 Pri n c i p l es of Ai rway M a n a g e m e n t
airway swelling, abnormal upper airway anatomy, upper airway Medical) and the EasyTube. Lighted stylet methods may per
hemorrhage, or a myriad of other difficult airway scenarios, mit light-guided (transillumination) intubation in situations
intubation may be difficult, or even impossible, and even BMV in which the vocal cords cannot be visualized, but in the era
can fail. Many other "contextual" factors can make airway man of vision guided intubation aids, there is a decrease in use of
agement challenging such as location, human factors, available this device. With the realization that airway rescue techniques
resources, and experience of the medical team. Nevertheless, should be done quickly, the so called "one second intubation
the goal remains that the patient's airway be promptly secured technique" employing disposable camera tube devices (ET
and oxygenation be maintained. VIEW Vivasight•) are gaining popularity when used in combi
Responding to an identified need to reduce the incidence nation with an EGO such as the iGel or Air-Q. Certain airways
of airway management failure, the American Society of are impossible to manage by any means other than cricothy
Anesthesiologists (ASA) issued guidelines and an algorithm for rotomy, a procedure that all airway practitioners ought to be
management of the difficult airway in 1 993, with subsequent competent to perform. Several techniques have been advocated,
revisions in 2003 and 20 1 3 .9'10'31 The guidelines stressed the including the "no drop" cricothyrotomy and the "fast surgical
importance of performing an airway evaluation for difficulty airway'' technique, a 4-step bougie-scalpel-tube technique1 1•33
prior to inducing anesthesia and paralyzing the patient. (see Chapter 1 4) .
Planned awake intubation, awakening the patient in the pres The challenge for any airway practitioner i s to b e able to
ence of a failed airway, and acquiring skills in alternative airway accurately predict when a difficult airway is present, to imme
management techniques are hallmarks of the 1 993 guidelines. diately recognize when an intubation failure has occurred, and
The 2003 guidelines reemphasize the importance of the airway to reliably and reproducibly ensure continuous gas exchange in
evaluation and incorporate the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) both of these unnerving circumstances.
as a discrete step in the algorithm, should failure occur. In the
20 1 3 guidelines VL is incorporated as a first airway manage
ment plan. The DAS have come up with simplified guidelines STA N DARD OF CARE
for management of the unanticipated difficult intubation in
adults in 20 1 5 emphasizing emergency oxygenation and ven • Is There a Prevailing Standard of Care in
tilation techniques. 1 1 Managing the Difficult and Fa iled Ai rway?
Unfortunately, the ASA and DAS guidelines are less use How Is It Defined?
ful outside the OR, especially in circumstances in which tra The growth in knowledge and evidence related to the practice
cheal intubation must be accomplished quickly and awakening of airway management is relentless. Advances in airway man
the patient is not an option. Even in the OR setting, explicit agement over the past two decades have significantly improved
guidelines for the rapid evaluation of an airway for occult dif patient outcome with a reduction in the incidence of death and
ficulty and the prioritization of rescue maneuvers in the event disability.34 1he challenge for the practitioner is to keep abreast
of a mandated immediate intubation are not well handled by of new information and new techniques to practice within the
the ASA or DAS guidelines and algorithms (see Chapter 2) . standard of care.
Furthermore, these guidelines do not take into consideration Black's Law Dictionar/ 5 defines the "standard of care" as:
patients who are uncooperative (e.g. , young children or men
The average degree of skill, care and diligence exercised by
tally challenged patients) or different patient populations (e.g. ,
members of the same profession, practicing in the same
pediatrics and near term parturients [see Chapter 5 1 ] ) .
or similar locality in light of the present state of medical
Further complicating this issue are the many new, effective,
and surgical science.
and safe airway devices that have been introduced to assist with
difficult and failed airway management. Flexible endoscopic This definition incorporates several important features:
and video-intubating bronchoscopes have become more por
• Average degree of skill
table and easier to use and have been joined by a collection of
• Same or similar locality
rigid optical devices and stylets (e.g. , Shikani Optical Stylet'",
• Present state of knowledge
Bonfils Stylet'", Levitan FPS Scope'", Clams Optical Stylet'",
etc.) , hybrid devices employing cameras or fiberoptics, such Taking these into consideration, the standard of care is the
as video-laryngoscopes (e.g. , GlideScope•, McGrath• Series 5 conduct and skill of an average and prudent practitioner that
video-laryngoscope, McGrath• MAC, King Vision•, AirTraq•, can be expected by a reasonable patient. A bad result due to a
Storz CMAc•, see Chapter 1 1 ) , and disposable camera tubes failure to meet the standard of care is generally considered to
(Vivasight, ET View Medical) . be malpractice. There are two main sources of information as
The LMA and intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA or to exactly what is the expected standard of care:
LMA Fastrach'") have assumed a distinct role in the manage
• The beliefs and opinions of experts in the field.
ment of both the difficult and the failed airway. In the pre
• The published scientific evidence, standards of care, practice
hospital setting the iGel (lntersurgical) and Air-Q (CookGas)
guidelines, protocols.
have assumed a more prominent role for initial airway man
agement, and rescue during rescucitation.3 2 The Combitube'" Driven by the complex nature of this clinical dilemma and
had been used in the past as a lifesaving rescue device, though the need for successful solutions that are easily learned and
now largely replaced by the King Laryngeal Tube airway (Ambu maintained (and cost-effective) , the standard of care in airway
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IV. Classification
There are three divisions into which all selections may be put. A
selection may be written to make something Clear; it may be for the
purpose of inspiring, or elevating one’s thoughts and feelings—to
make Impressive; it may be for the purpose of enforcing some great
truth—to make Belief. This classification is based upon the author’s
purpose.
Questions: Where the author’s purpose is to make Clear some
obscure point or idea.
Where the author’s purpose is Belief. The author does more than
make us see, or feel.
1. Is it modern or old?
2. Where is the scene laid?
3. Are descriptions given in detail or mere suggestion?
4. Is dialect used?
5. Will personation aid in rendering the selection?
6. Does the power and beauty of the selection lie in narration,
description, or in character drawing?
7. Name some definite things, sounds or objects described,
that give color or atmosphere.
8. Is the movement:
VI. Vocalization
Let our guide be as Shakespeare has so well put it:
Let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word;
the word to the action; with this special observance—that you
o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
I. Intelligent Impression
A. General Preparation
Read silently the entire selection. The purpose is to gain an
impression of the selection as a whole.
B. Special Preparation
Read the selection silently a second time. The aim is to make a
mental note of the respective importance of the several parts which
make up the whole.
A. General Preparation
Before rendering a selection orally it must be given a setting. This
has to do with time, place, objects, sounds, movements, or anything
that tends to give local color.
B. Special Preparation
Read the selection aloud for the first time. In doing this, ask
yourself:
NATHAN FOSTER
By Paul L. Dunbar
Nathan Foster and his lifelong friend and neighbor, Silas
Bollender, sat together side by side upon the line-fence that
separated their respective domains. They were both whittling away
industriously, and there had been a long silence between them.
Nathan broke it, saying:
“’Pears to me like I’ve had oncommon good luck this year.”
“Wall, you have had good luck, there ain’t no denyin’ that. It ’pears
as though you’ve been ee-specially blest.”
“An’ I know I ain’t done nothin’ to deserve it.”
“No, o’ course not. Don’t take no credit to yourself, Nathan. We
don’t none of us deserve our blessings, however we may feel about
our crosses; we kin be purty shore o’ that.”
“Now, look, my pertater vines was like little trees, an’ nary a bug
on ’em.”
“An’ you had as good a crop of corn as I’ve ever seen raised in
this part of Montgomery county.”
“Yes, an’ I sold it, too, jest before that big drop in the price.”
“After givin’ away all yer turnips you could, you had to feed ’em to
the hogs.”
“My fruit trees jest had to be propped up, an’ I’ve got enough
perserves in my cellar to last two or three winters, even takin’ into
consideration the drain o’ church socials an’ o’ charity.”
“Yore chickens are fat and sassy, not a sign o’ pip on ’em.”
“Look at them cows in the fur pastur. Did yer ever see anything to
beat ’em fer sleekness?”
“Wall, look at the pasture itself; it’s most enough to make human
beings envy the critters. You didn’t have a drop of rain on yer while
you was gettin’ in yer hay, did yer?”
“Not a drop.”
“An’ I had a whole lot ruined jest as I was about to rick it.”
“Silas, sich luck as I’m a-havin’ is achilly skeery; it don’t seem
right.”
“No, it don’t seem right for a religious man like you, Nathan. Ef you
was a hard an’ graspin’ Sinner, it ’ud be jest makin’ you top-heavy
so’s yore fall ’ud be the greater.”
“I don’t know but what that’s it, anyhow. Mebbe I’m a-gettin’ puffed
up over my goods without exactly knowin’ it.”
“Mebbe so, mebbe so. Them kind o’ feelin’s is mighty sneakin’
comin’ on a body. O’ course I ain’t seen no signs of it in you; but it
’pears to me you’ll have to mortify yore flesh yit to keep from being
purse-proud.”
“Mortify the flesh?”
“O’ course, you can’t put peas in yore shoes er get any of yer
frien’s to lash you, so you’ll have to find some other way of mortifyin’
yer flesh. Wall, fer my part, I don’t need to look fur none, fur I never
had too many blessin’s in my life, less’n you’d want to put the
children under that head.”
Silas shut his jack-knife with a snap and, laughing, slid down on
his side of the fence. In serious silence Nathan Foster watched him
go stumping up the path toward the house.
“Silas seems to take everything so light in this world; I wonder how
he can do it.”
With Nathan, now, it was just the other way. Throughout his eight
and forty years he had taken every fact of life with ponderous
seriousness. Entirely devoid of humor, he was a firm believer in
signs, omens, tokens, and judgments. He was a religious man, and
his wealth frightened and oppressed him. He gave to his church and
gave freely.
As usual, he had taken his friend’s bantering words in hard
earnest and was turning them over in his mind.
The next morning when Nathan and Silas met to compare notes,
Nathan began:
“I have been thinking over what you said last night, Silas, about
me mortifyin’ my flesh, and it seems to me like a good idee. I
wrasselled in prayer last night, and it was shown to me that it wa’n’t
no more’n right fur me to make some kind o’ sacrifice fur the mercies
that’s been bestowed upon me.”
“Wall, I don’t know, Nathan; burnt-offerings are a little out now.”
“I don’t mean nothin’ like that; I mean some sacrifice of myself,
some—”
His sentence was broken in upon by a shrill voice that called from
Silas Bollender’s kitchen door:
“Si, you’d better be a-gittin’ about yore work instid o’ standin’ over
there a-gassin’ all the mornin’. I’m shore I don’t have no time to
stand around.”
“All right, Mollie; speakin’ of mortifyin’ the flesh an’ makin’ a
sacrifice of yoreself, Nathan, why don’t you git married?”
Nathan started.
“Then you’d be shore to accomplish both. Fur pure mortification of
the flesh, I don’t know of nothin’ more thoroughgoin’ er effectiver
than a wife. Also she is a vexation to a man’s sperit. You raaly ought
to git married, Nathan.”
“Do you think so?”
“It looks to me that that ’ud be about as good a sacrifice as you
could make; an’ then it’s such a lastin’ one.”
“I don’t believe you realize what you air a-sayin’, Silas. It’s a
mighty desprit step that you’re advisin’ me to take.”
Again Mrs. Bollender’s voice broke in:
“Si, air you goin’ to git anything done this mornin’, er air you goin’
to stand there an’ hold up that fence fur the rest of the day?”
“Nathan, kin you stand here an’ listen to a voice an’ a speech like
that an’ then ask me if I realize the despritness of marriage?”
“It’s desprit, but who’d you advise me to marry,—Silas, that is, if I
made up my mind to marry,—an’ I don’t jest see any other way.”
“Oh, I ain’t pickin’ out wives fur anybody, but it seems to me that
you might be doin’ a good turn by marryin’ the Widder Young. The
Lord ’ud have two special reasons fur blessin’ you then; fur you’d be
mortifyin’ yore flesh an’ at the same time a-helpin’ the widder an’ her
orphans.”
“That’s so.” He couldn’t admit to Silas that he had been thinking
hard of the Widow Young even before he had of mortifying his flesh
with a wife.
Once decided, it did not take him long to put his plans into
execution. But he called Silas over to the fence that evening after he
had dressed to pay a visit to the widow.
“Wall, Silas, I’ve determined to take the step you advised.”
“Humph, you made your mind up in a hurry, Nathan.”
“I don’t know as it’s any use a-waiting; ef a thing’s to be done, I
think it ought to be done and got through with. What I want particular
to know now is, whether it wouldn’t be best to tell Lizzie—I mean the
widder—that I want her as a means of mortification.”
“Wall, no, Nathan, I don’t know as I would do that jest yit; I don’t
believe it would be best.”
“But if she don’t know, wouldn’t it be obtainin’ her under false
pretenses if she said yes?”
“Not exactaly the way I look at it, fur you’ve got more motives fur
marryin’ than one.”
“What! Explain yoreself, Silas; explain yoreself.”
“I mean you want to do her good as well as subdue your own
sperit.”
“Oh, yes, that’s so.”
“Now, no woman wants to know at first that she’s a vexation to a
man’s sperit. It sounds scriptual, but it don’t sound nooptial. Now
look at me an’ Mis’ Bollender. I never told her until we’d been
married more’n six months; but she didn’t believe it then, an’ she
won’t believe it till this day.”
“Wall, I’ll agree not to tell her right away, but if she consents, I
must tell her a week or so after we are married. It’ll ease my
conscience. Ef I could tell her now, it ’ud be a heap easier in gittin’
round the question. I don’t know jest how to do it without.”
“Oh, you won’t have no trouble in makin’ her understand.
Matrimony’s a subject that women air mighty keen on. They can see
if a man’s a-poppin’ the question ef he only half tries. You’ll git
through all right.”
Somewhat strengthened, Nathan left his friend and sought the
widow’s home. He found her stitching away merrily under the light of
a coal-oil lamp with a red shade.
“La, Nathan, who’d a’ expected to see you up here? You’ve got to
be such a home body that no one don’t look to see you out of yore
own field and garden.”
“I jest thought I’d drop in.”
“Wall, it’s precious kind of you, I’m shore. I was a-feelin’ kind o’
lonesome. The children go to bed with the chickens.”
“I jest thought I’d drop in.”
“Wall, it does remind me of old times to see you jest droppin’ in,
informal like, this way. My, how time does fly!”
“Widder, I’ve been thinkin’ a good deal lately; I’ve been greatly
prospered in my day; in fact, my cup runneth over.”
“You have been prospered, Nathan.”
“Seems ’s ef—seems ’s ef I ought to sheer it with somebody, don’t
it?”
“Wall, Nathan, I don’t know nobody that’s more generous in givin’
to the pore than you air.”
“I don’t mean in jest exactly that way. I mean, widder—you’re the
morti—I mean the salvation of my soul. Could you—would you—er
do you think you’d keer to sheer my blessin’s with me an’ add
another one to ’em?”
The Widow Young looked at him in astonishment; then the tears
filled her eyes as she asked, “Nathan, do you mean it?”
“I wouldn’t a-spent so much trouble on a joke, widder.”
“No, it don’t seem that you would, Nathan. Well, it’s mighty
sudden, mighty sudden, but I can’t say no.”
“Fur these an’ many other blessin’s make us truly thankful, O
Lord,” said Nathan devoutly. And he sat another hour with the widow
making plans for the early marriage, on which he insisted.
The widow had been settled in Nathan’s home over a month
before he had ever thought of telling her of the real motive of his
marriage, and every day from the time it occurred to him it grew
harder for him to do it.
One night when he had been particularly troubled he sought his
friend and counselor with a clouded brow. They sat together in their
accustomed place on the fence.
“I’m bothered, Silas.”
“What’s the matter?”
“Why, there’s several things. First off, I ain’t never told the widder
that she was a mortification, an’ next she ain’t. I look around at that
old house o’ mine that ain’t been a home since mother used to scour
the hearth, an’ it makes me feel like singin’ fer joy. An’ I hear them
children playin’ round me—they’re the beatenest children; that
youngest one called me daddy yistiddy—well, I see ’em playin’ round
and my eyes air opened, an’ I see that the widder’s jest another
blessin’ added to the rest. It looks to me like I had tried to beat the
Almighty.”
“Wall, now, Nathan, I don’t know that you’ve got any cause to feel
bothered. You’ve done yore duty. If you’ve tried to mortify yore flesh
an’ it refused to mortify, why, that’s all you could do, an’ I believe the
Lord’ll take the will fer the deed an’ credit you accordin’ly.”
“Mebbe so, Silas, mebbe so.”
—Copyright by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, and used by
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