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/•srnished, as it is termed ; that is, by his not having 

 lost his coltish form, or his muscles having become 

 swelled and furnished by exercise, A four year old 

 horse is leggy, his forehand is thick and low, his feet 

 are round and very wide at the bottom, his njuzzle is 

 round, and his mouth has no depth. As the above 

 is practised to make horses appear older than they 

 are, so hishopping, as it is called, is an operation per- 

 formed on the teeth to nrake them appear younger 

 than they are, and consists in making an artificial ca- 

 vity in the surface, now worn plain, by means of a 

 sharp hard tool, ?nd then burning the cavity black 

 with ^. heated Tfointed instiumeut: but the strokes of 

 the graver aetect tiie imposition, and the two inner 

 grooves of the tushes cannot be restored by similair 

 Bit.-iis ; nor can its blunt point be again made sharp 

 and prominent. The tush, therefore, should always 

 be attended to in examining the teeth for a horse's 

 age. It is, indeed, in many respects, a more certain 

 criterion than the nippers, and is among judges more 

 attended to than tiiem. 



Tlius rnudi is said on the mode of judging of the 

 age by the teeth to satisfy public opinion ; but it would 

 be infinitely more judicious were the marks in the 

 mouth less attended to. It is but little considered 

 that the period of a horse's life, with moderate care 

 and good usage, is protracted to 25, o5, and 45 

 years; and an instance lately occurred of a horse 

 dying at 50. The instances of their being vigorous 

 and strong at 30 and o5 are very numerous, and as 

 frequent as activity in men of 80 and 90- A gentk- 

 man at Dulwich, near London, has three monuments 

 of three horses, who severally died in his possession at 



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