The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-27
DOBLEY'S MAN WITH A HOE.
AUTHORIZATION FMARKHIwSPoEM
ron MRS. DIS BENBETL.

airy dub meant that one had TO perform In public l
simply can Iii"
what do they want you to do, my DEAR" asked
Mr.. Doblcy. "A song and dance or u cakcw0lk2 |
wouldn't mind little thing like that You can
pick Il up In no time"
cts nothing like that" said Nina Dobloy, pass
ing a typewritton document over tho breakfast
table. And you needn't make any fun Of the
matter either The frivolous way In which you
| look al everything 10 urosome. Now, what an 10
| dor
Z. Il am sure, my dear" began Doblcy -
"Just read IL read ~" commanded Mira Dob
| Icy, and her husband read
| -Honora Coorbs Dobiep.
"DEAn MADAM; Al tho next meeting OF the
Literary Club the topic Of discussion will DO Mark
hams poem. The Man With tho Hoe. AS you
have been selected chief speaker OF the
evening, you will kindly DO prepared 70 rocite tho
poem and give short sketch Of the author
Also TO give your opinions as To tho idoa contained
in the work. woll as the general style and liter
| airy construction Of the poem"
WELL my dear" said Mr.. Dobley. trying To con-
ceal tho fact that he was quito perturbed his
| wife by the letter. "Well2"
"wel1 Why didn't they select you? What did
they send that 10 me fort What do know about
| farming?"
You forget my dear, that this is not agri-
| cultural club. but a literary society. OF course
they refer to the famous poem"
What poem?"
is it possible that you haven't heard of Mark
hams masterpiece The Man with the Hoe
asked Dobsy, with q roproachful look over the top
OF his egg.
why, / haven't read any thing but Quo Vadis
this summer, and only half read that You see it
hurts my cyes end besides that IN too busy. Who
was hc?"
1.-The Man with the Hoe? He has become one
Of the most typical Of ---"
What was the matter with him? Why didn't he
hoe? Where did II happen"
TT began with picture, my dear. An artist
made picture OF a man in a field with hoe"
"1Ioeng corn. suppose; we'll what oft'"
well, II was great picture filled with depth
and feeling and life -"
Il suppose II seemed a. though he were really
hoeing, did it? I've seen picture like that girl
gathering roses you could Just see the stems
snap"
no it wasn't exactly that The man had
stopped -"
stopped hocing? What did he do that for?"
He'd stopped 10 rest and was leaning on the
hoe"
Gracious! A hoe isn't a biz comfortable TO
lean upon. Why didn't he sit DOWN"
why or 1T was Just the artists idea, you nee.
The man stopping TO lean on his hoe the laborer
in the field don't you seep.- IMPLYING the work
man Of the the empty ngcs Markham
wrote"
Nv rs IL Markham had the hoc7"
"Oh moi Markham was a poet and he saw the
picture and saw the poetry in it, Then he wrote
the poem and called H. The Man with the Hoe"
Was Il pretty"
1T was magnificent idea-'he figure of tina,
man typical of the workm an he patient slave
ploughing the field"
What did he have hoe 70: II he was plough
ing"
you don't understand. Don't you catch fhe
idea? Labor-ihc farmer at wOrk-plodding
along without an idea-sweating over his work"
You Just said he'd stopped to rest"
"Er-yes-but when you read IL. you'll SEQ the
splendid picture Markham drew"
Excuse me, John: was Markham the artist OF
was he the man who had the hoe or the man who
Just wrote about it?"
He was the poot, my dear; he wrote the verso"
Il suppose he was paid for IT, wasn't her
/ suppose so. my dear"
Then what was the trouble? Really John, I
can't seem 10 understand what all the fuss was
about"
Markham wanted TO show the miserable condi-
ton Of the hard working farmer--the slavery Of the
toiler-the- the-fetters--"
why, John Dobley, you know you have often
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The horses know Just where TO go lsuppose they
will have automobiles after while"
He spoke" went on Mr. Doblcy "of the 'empti-
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emPi----"
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