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/ :\o 4 in our catalogue i~ an artolype by a Dutch ma~ter, l'ei"·
lnated e\et")'\dJere and known as "The Dutchman with the Hoe."
Here he :;tancb. a fair (;ennan youth. whose mild, trusting blue eye~
and noble brow bespeak the poet and the musician. Though in youth
like Browning, inclined to verse almost as much as to music, he in
later years is said to ha\·e
gained a 111uch wider reputa
~. so ing-rained in his soul that
I tion in the latter. ~lusic was
he had one time actually sung
the 13th chapter of tst Corin·
-==-"::::_•>If~ .. ., I:, thians when he should ha,·e
~ recited it. It seems a great
I pity that a genius of so much THIS PICTURE wAS
/..:----..::;:::. } llromisc should ha\·e been
.. " ... h. h ... ,-; -,. i \\\ OMITTED OUT OF
• f ·~ ~ (l,-tr., ;, J\11 ... ~-t~,·• lead to the pursuit of an agri·
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cnlturist's life. hut perlnps this only drc\1 him nearer nature. Withal,
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hL· must ha,·e had some native taste for agriculture, for in early youth he
began his incessant demand for oats (o'ib). He must ha,·e known his
ability, for one of his early expre~~ions was " It's in me but I can't get
it out, ' ' and 111ust lun·e been true from his many apparent efforts to get
the " it " out. .\s represented in our picture, he has reached the higher
form of Agriculture kno,,n as Horticulture, and we see him busily
engaged with the fair Lillie, \\hiclt he is cultivating with patient
att«'ntion.