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15 December 2012

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Syracuse Post-Standard" (27 JUL 1905, PAGE ?):

BIG MESS OF LARK SENT TO COOGAN
BUT HE RECEIVES ONLY A SPARROW
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Night Station Master's Vision of Aristocratic Pudding Fades After
He Opens Package - Unhappy on Eve of Vacation Trip.
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Although Night Station Master James P. Coogan of the New York Central
lines leaves next week for a two week's vacation in New York, Boston
and on the ocean, he isn't happy, and it's all because of a cruel
joker.

After reading Dr. F. O. Donohue's desciption of the famous lark pudding
at the old Cheshire Cheese in London, Engineman Thomas Tighe of 
Schenectady thought it would be appropriate to send Mr. Coogan a box
of game in order that he might enjoy an aristocratic meal on the eve
of his vacation.

The box as received by Mr. Coogan was large and carefully wrapped.
With it was a note explaining that Mr. Tighe had just returned from
a successful hunt and he took pleasure in sending it Mr. Coogan a mess
of lark.  It was a hard matter to find the lark.

After removing a cartload, more or less, of wrapping paper Mr. Coogan
found one sparrow.  He said things and laid the whole deal to Tom
Pike.

Whether Pike had anything to do with it or not is as yet unknown. 
Tighe declares that he had a sufficient number of birds in the box to
make Mr. Coogan a fine pudding, and now the night station master is
looking for the man who robbed the box.  Tighe says that there is no
reason why the sparrow pudding cannot be made as popular in America
as the lark pudding in England.

Pike spent a long time last night explaining to Mr. Coogan all about
the larks of England.  He told him that they always fly high, are very
plentiful and make choice eating.  The fact that they are choice
eating appealed to Mr. Coogan more than anything else.  He is strong
on eating.

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