If the prospective vasectomee or his wife suggests the procedure, the doctor is obligated to explain its drawbacks, even if he regards them as academic or rare.

I have[…]more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.

I said, 'Yes he is.' And he said, 'I suppose I should know who you are, but I'm afraid I don't. Ha, ha, ha. ' And from then on, throughout the journey he made jokes to his chum next to him about my degree of unfame, and when they got up he took a full proper look at me and said, 'No, I still don't know who he is', quite openly to his friend, who found it very funny.

That it updrying fled: As thro a desert dry to go, Them thro the deeps He led.