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A Connecticut Poet

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
May
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is a movement in Connecticut.to erect a monument to the memory of the poet, James Gates Percival. He was a peculiar man and had all of the poet's idiosyncrasies. On one occasion he waa invited to meet a number of gentlemen in New Haven, who were in their turn notified that they were to have the pleasure of meeting the poet. He was to be, in fact, the honored guest of the evening. They were all on hand, but Percival did not put in an appearance. Allowance was made f or kis utter indifference to the passing of time, and up to midnight he was expected. At last, as morning drew near, deeming it certain that the poet had f orgotten the invitation, the guests went home and the host put up the bars and went to bed. At about 2 o'clock in the morning he heard some one at bis front door, went down, asked the object of the cali and found that it was Percival. The astonished host let the poet in, and the latter blandly said that he had inferred f rom what had been said that there were to be others present. The host told him that the others had all gone home. The poet expressed regret and settled himself down for a good smoke and talk, which kert ud. to his host's ment, till the sun

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Ann Arbor Argus
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