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CHAP. XLIII. 



TO KNOW THE AGE OF A HORSE BY HIS 

 TEETHj AND SOME GENERAL DIRECTIONS 

 TO ASCERTAIN HIS AGE AFTER HE HAS 

 LOST THE MARK OF MOUTH. 



EVERY one who buys a horse should be 

 acquainted with the means of ascertaining his 

 age with some degree of accuracy, to prevent 

 being imposed upon. The teeth, therefore, 

 are the only sure guides, till a horse loses the 

 the mark of mouth, that is, when he is past 

 eight years; yet sometimes the mark of mouth 

 of the eighth year, which is the last that dis- 

 appears, will remain, though but faintly, until . 

 he be ten or eleven years old, which will de- 

 ceive the generality of people. The first teeth 

 that make their appearance in the mouth are 

 the foal-teeth, two above and two below, in the 

 front and centre of the upper and under jaws, 



