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size of the recent molar ; also, to afford room for the partial development 

 of two other grinders, which, as age progresses, will appear behind that 

 which is now the last tooth. 



About this time, frequently at birth, little nodules of bone, without 

 fangs, merely attached to the gums, appear in front of each row of grind- 

 ers. These are vulgarly denominated "Wolves' Teeth," and were once 

 held to be of vast importance. At present, however, they are recog- 

 nized as the simple representatives of those organs which in other ani- 

 mals fas in man) render the teeth a continuous or unbroken curve. 

 They are, by experience, found to be harmless. It is idle to remove 

 these organs, especially as they generally disappear with the shedding 

 of those members facing which they are located. 



Although by this period the foal has lost the furzy tail, nevertheless 

 it has not assumed the aspect of the horse. Its face and its back want 

 length ; its trunk needs bulk ; its legs are much too long ; and no one in 

 his senses should, for an instant, imagine it could be a full-grown speci- 

 men of its race. Indeed, the author would not mention such a possi- 

 bility, did he not know a single instance where an error of this nature 

 was actually perpetrated with a creature of the equine order. A cockney 

 gentleman took up his residence, a few years ago, in one of the channel 

 islands, and wishing to procure some safe animal for the amusement of 

 his children, the simple Londoner actually purchased and worked a little 

 donkey, barely one year old, in his ignorance mistaking the animal for 

 an ass which had attained its maturity. That no reader of the present 

 volume may commit so cruel a blunder, the portrait of a horse, as it 

 appears at the first year of its age, is presented below. 



ABOUT ONE TEAR OLD. 



The changes in the teeth, after the first year of life has been attained, 

 are characterized by the longer periods which divide them. Nature 



