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There is still a third aspirant. A man with the extraordinary name of D'Vys—George Whitefield D'Vys—of Cambridge, Mass., has been a persistent and undiscouraged claimant for many years; he has related the circumstances of the composition of the poem repeatedly and at great length; he has even, at the instance of the late Dr. Harry Thurston Peck, who discussed the question of authorship in the Scrap Book for December, 1908, gone before a notary public and sworn that his story was true. This story, much condensed from D'Vys's diffuse narrative, but with all its essential details, is as follows:

On the first or second Sunday of August, 1886, D'Vys and a friend named Edward L. Cleveland were loitering about the ball grounds at Franklin Park, Boston, when a sudden inspiration seized D'Vys, and he started to write "Casey" on the margin of a Boston Globe he found flying across the field. "I was fairly wild as I mapped it out," he says, "and when I