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Take a rabbit's liver, heart', and lights, and 

 season them. Put them into a pound canister 

 tin, and carry the tin in your breast pocket. 

 You will require four livers, or four seasoned 

 doses, and you should put some blood with 

 each dose. Lay one dose two or three yards 

 away from each gate, and, while the poacher 

 is engaged in setting his net, the dog will 

 scent the blood on the dose, come up, and eat 

 it. The poacher sets his net, and then, not 

 knowing what his dog has been about, calls to 

 him : " Here, Bob, go on, good dog." Away 

 goes Bob across the field, but before he has 

 got a hundred yards he begins to feel very 

 queer and staggery. He winds a hare and 

 makes a rush for her, but, as he is drawing up 

 to her flanks, he pitches a somersault head 

 over heels ; he tries to rise, but only falls over 

 again, his legs going out as stiff as iron pokers. 

 It's all up with poor Bob, he never returns to 

 his master, but lays there until next morning. 

 You come to pick up your doses, and find one 

 clean gone. (This is Irish, quite Irish, you 

 know. EDS.) Look about you, and you will 



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