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to extract, and as it is not afterwards absorbed but 

 speedily assumes a dark colour, it remains a tell- 

 tale and an eye-sore during the life of the animal. 

 Had the colt been left alone, the fang in a few 

 months would, by the natural process, have been 

 absorbed : but the force which broke the tooth, though 

 incapable of extracting it, probably ruptured the 

 delicate tubes of the absorbent vessels. The broken 

 member is left in the mouth, either to act as a foreign 

 body, or to become united by anchylosis to the jaw, 

 and continue for life a deformity. The folly of the 

 practice will surely on reflection be evident to all ; 

 and the other means employed for the same end are 

 in a like degree injurious. The breeder will con- 

 sult his own interest best by studying the feelings of 

 his animals. For the sake of profit, if not for the 

 love of humanity, he had better cease to torture the 

 poor beasts by which he hopes to gain. Suffering 

 will neither engender spirit, growth, or fat, and the 

 market pays price for each of these. The mouth of 

 the horse is too important towards the value of the 

 animal to be ignorantly mutilated. Let the mind 

 reflect, before the hand is permitted even to use the 

 lancet. To lance the gums of the human infant was 



