Now this sounds bad for Dick's qualities as a sporting dog, but such a dog is necessary in a thickly-wooded region such as I shot in, when one wants to know what is in the country.
Dick, when he found anything, barked loudly; and this drew attention to the fact that there was game in that quarter.

Sometimes, of course, he drove the game away; at others he drove it towards me.

At all events he went to places where I never could have gone.

On one occasion I heard a great noise among some long reeds near a lake were I was duck shooting--Dick barking, some other animal making a strange noise.

This went on so long that at last I went to see what was the matter.