I liked to have a hard search after a bird after it had been shot, and to be praised for bringing it out without biting or injuring it.
"I never got lost, for I am one of those dogs that can always tell where human beings are.

I did not smell them.

I would be too far away for that, but if my master was standing in some place and I took a long round through the woods, I knew exactly where he was, and could make a short cut back to him without returning in my tracks.
"But I must tell you about my trouble.

One Saturday afternoon a party of young men came to get me.

They had a dog with them, a cocker spaniel called Bob, but they wanted another.