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and others, the reader would be led to believe that the temporary 

 incisors were protruded into the mouth in pairs. Thus, at birtl^ 

 two teeth are shown standing up prominently from the gum. 

 In the course of a fortnight two more are added, then two more, 



Fig. 27. — Incisoi's of Calf at birth. 



and at the end of a month or five weeks the eight teeth are 

 well up. Nothing of this sort, however, occurs in nature ; on the 

 contrary, in the mouth of the calf at bhih, the temjjorary teeth, 

 molars, and incisors, are all so far advanced that they may be 



Fig. 28. — Incisors of Calf at one month. 



seen in outline under the gum, and commonly tite cutting edges 

 of the incisors and a few of the points of the molars are un- 

 covered. The illustration above (Fig. 27) shows the state of 

 the incisors at birth. 



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