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Past the Last Stake, It’s Us (Sgt. Puppy’s Field Notes, October 19)

Erin Wood Camp Puppy Haven
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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 10/19/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: ‘Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The noon siren at the firehouse. The library, open Tuesdays and Saturdays. Snow stakes going in along Hollow Road, one every twenty-five feet, so somebody can find the edge in January. Past the last stake, it’s us. It was Monday, October 19th. It was gray and raw in Camp Puppy Haven, the last of the leaves coming down. We were working the day watch out of Snow Stake Inspection. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Captain Wren. My name’s Puppy. A man spent all morning setting orange stakes along his driveway so the plow could find it in January. He measured every gap twice. The dogs have never once lost the driveway.’ Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The noon siren at the firehouse. The library, open Tuesdays and Saturdays. Snow stakes going in along Hollow Road, one every twenty-five feet, so somebody can find the edge in January. Past the last stake, it’s us.

It was Monday, October 19th. It was gray and raw in Camp Puppy Haven, the last of the leaves coming down. We were working the day watch out of Snow Stake Inspection. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Captain Wren. My name’s Puppy.

A man spent all morning setting orange stakes along his driveway so the plow could find it in January. He measured every gap twice. The dogs have never once lost the driveway.

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