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The Reporter. 
I WONDER if we have reporters in America? 
What a question! Are not our newspaper re- 
porters the best and most indefatigable in the 
world? But I do not mean the reporting homo; 
it is the reporting canis I am wondering about. 
Do we have reporting dogs in America? If 
so, I have not seen them, neither have I heard 
of them. Our stories about the pointing dogs 
revolve about “the point,’ and of the dog’s 
sticking to it like grim death. ‘‘He’s so steady 
on a point that you can’t kick him forward on 
to the bird,’ says the dog trainer in highest 
praise of the brute he is trying to sell. And 
we all recollect the story of the crack Western 
dog, that was lost at the close of a day’s shoot- 
ing. Search was made next morning, and the 
dog was found in the brush, close to where he 
was missed the night before, and still pointing 
the game he had come upon as darkness over- 
took him. So I doubt if we have “the reporter” 
in the Land of the True, and perhaps a word 
about him may not be uninteresting to American 
readers. 
I was out partridge shooting in the south of 
Sweden in the fall of 1884. I had a sprightly 
fellow, Joseph, as guide and bearer of cartridges 
and game, and’ was shooting that day over an 
old German pointer a friend had loaned me, so 
that I could give my own dog a day’s rest. We 
had enjoyed a fairly good day’s sport, and to- 
ward evening were returning down the valley of 
the river Nissa, toward our headquarters at 
Oscarstr6m. We were tired, the shooting was 
over, and our dog was allowed to roam at will. 
As we sauntered along I saw old Lila make her 
appearance over the top of a distant heathery 
ridge. She looked up and down over the valley, 
and as soon as she caught sight of us came to- 
ward us in a straight line on a brisk gallop; 
wagging her tail in a joyful sort of way. Com- 
ing in she raised a forepaw, placed it on my leg, 
looked up in my face, wagged her tail briskly, 
turned about, took a dozen leaps back in the 
track she had come, then looked around at me 
and wagged her tail again. 
“Well, what does all this mean?” asked I. 
“Oh! Lila has got a covey of partridges over 
the hill yonder, and has come in with the re- 
port,’ answered Joseph. 
“Nonsense!” 
But Lila rushed on a dozen steps more, looked 
back, and seeing I did not follow her, came in, 
put up her paw and again went through all her 
motions. 
“Well, old girl, lead on!” I said at last, “we'll 
follow and see what you’ve got at all events.” 
So over the hill we went, Lila leading and ever 
and anon looking back—down across a valley, 
then straight up the further hillside where she 
came to a point at a bunch of bushes.* Before 
I got within shot the partridges began to whir 
up; at least a dozen flew, but old Lila stuck now 
to her point, and on my reaching her side the 
last bird of the covey flew, which I knocked 
over and Lila retrieved. We now hunted along 
the bosky hillside, and Lila pointed and I shot 
six more of this covey, bringing up my bag for 
the day to nineteen partridges and a hare. 
“You didn’t know Lila was a reporter?” quoth 
Joseph. 
“No, I did not know before this day that there 
was such a dog in the world.” 
Since then I have made the matter of “the 
reporting dog” the study of some leisure hours. 
The reporter occurs most often among German 
pointers, or in crosses between German and 
English pointers, but even among them not 
more than one trained dog in twenty is a re- 
porter. The trait is rare among English full 


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