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Show Just What He Wanted. (New York Tribune.) Jay Cooke, the financier, was from his boyhood an enthusiastic angler. The' waters wa-ters of Put-in-Bay, not far from Sandusky, San-dusky, O., have often been the scene of his exploits from his earliest to his latest years. Concerning this harbor and its associations with a notable event in our naval history, this little tale is a favorite favor-ite of Mr. Cooke's: An old countryman entered a drug store in Sandusky, holding hold-ing up a handkerchief with a knot in it. "Well, uncle, what is it?" asked the clerk "I'll get around to it pretty quick. Now. what place is it down here on the lake?" "Do you mean Put-in-Bay?" "Yes, that's it. Now, who was it that put in there?" "Perhaps you mean Commodore Perry?" "The very man. And I want a bottle of Perrygoric." |