I have less to do today than yesterday.

Colonel Elbridge Colby in Army Talk tells us that the shelter-half, or “pup tent” made its debut during the Civil War. It seems to have been first christened “pup tent” by the Sixth Iowa Infantry at Memphis in 1862 and appears to stem etymologically from the same soldierly self-ridicule that resulted in such terms as “dogface” and “dog tags.”

He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.

They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.