 By contrast, Cargunka is himself the butt of several running gags about his obsessions with his personal appearance, poetry, and potatoes.It can't be known, of course, whether Hodgson might one day have written more stories featuring Cargunka.But by taking the most interesting aspects of his earlier recurring character stories and improving on them, while discarding aspects that didn't work well, Hodgson created a character that both succeeded in the two completed stories and had great potential for future work.