{"id":373,"date":"2009-05-28T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-05-28T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T20:23:12","slug":"dog-blog-on-the-kingston-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/05\/28\/dog-blog-on-the-kingston-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog blog: On the Kingston Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the good ship ‘Chesperus’<\/p>\n

That sailed the wintry sea,<\/p>\n

And Chesper had taken Herbert W. Cobb<\/p>\n

To bear him company.<\/p>\n

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\"Chester<\/dt>\n
Chester Fuller and dog aboard the ‘Chesperus,’ 1898<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The poem above is written on the back of the photograph, and while it is a little cryptic (did Herbert W. Cobb take the picture from his own boat?\u00a0 is Chesper the name of Chester Fuller’s dog?), it lends a special air of mystery to another great dog portrait from the Local History Room Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the good ship ‘Chesperus’ That sailed the wintry sea, And Chesper had taken Herbert W. Cobb To bear him company. Chester Fuller and dog aboard the ‘Chesperus,’ 1898 The poem above is written on the back of the photograph, and while it is a little cryptic (did Herbert W. Cobb take the picture … <\/p>\n

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