Cream typewriter-paper background with the closing paragraph centered in monospace ink: ‘A woman stood on the porch in shirtsleeves, worried about what the warm meant. Murph lay down in it. One of them had the right idea.’ Dated 11/05/26. THiNK LiKE

Nobody Had the Heart to Tell Him (Sgt. Puppy’s Field Notes, November 5)

Erin Wood
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Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

Typewriter-style note on cream paper, dated 11/05/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: ‘This is the camp. Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Sixty-two degrees in November. A spring peeper started up in the swamp behind the barn. Nobody had the heart to tell him. It was Thursday, November 5th. It was warm and drizzling in Camp Puppy Haven, the wrong weather for the calendar. We were working the day watch out of Wrong Season Liaison. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Ella. My name’s Puppy. A woman stood on the porch in shirtsleeves, worried about what the warm meant. Murph lay down in it. One of them had the right idea.’ Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

This is the camp. Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Sixty-two degrees in November. A spring peeper started up in the swamp behind the barn. Nobody had the heart to tell him.

It was Thursday, November 5th. It was warm and drizzling in Camp Puppy Haven, the wrong weather for the calendar. We were working the day watch out of Wrong Season Liaison. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Ella. My name’s Puppy.

A woman stood on the porch in shirtsleeves, worried about what the warm meant. Murph lay down in it. One of them had the right idea.


Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.

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