We Solved It the Other Way (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, August 6)

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 08/06/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: 'The blackberries came in along the stone wall this week. The humans are counting them. The dogs are not. It was Thursday, August 6th. It was going to hit eighty-eight in Camp Puppy Haven, with a storm somewhere in the afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Bramble Line Detail. My partner's Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Dot. My name's Puppy. A woman stood at the brambles doing arithmetic about jam. She needed four cups. She had three. We solved it the other way and had nothing left to count.' Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG."

The blackberries came in along the stone wall this week. The humans are counting them. The dogs are not.

It was Thursday, August 6th. It was going to hit eighty-eight in Camp Puppy Haven, with a storm somewhere in the afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Bramble Line Detail. My partner's Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Dot. My name's Puppy.

A woman stood at the brambles doing arithmetic about jam. She needed four cups. She had three. We solved it the other way and had nothing left to count.


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

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