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repose confidence; and many a horse, by the bungling- 

 efforts of such people, pretending to operate, is ulti- 

 mately rendered dangerous in the stable. Moreover, 

 the horse owner cannot be too seriously cautioned, 

 against giving permission to those who attend on his 

 animals, to overstep their lawful limits. In the first 

 instance he may, perhaps, congratulate himself upon 

 the result, but speedy experience will convince him, 

 to his cost, of the danger of the system. If the 

 operation should have been delayed so long, as to 

 allow the teeth to have become of unequal lengths, 

 then, after the milk incisors are extracted, the per- 

 manent teeth must be rendered level ; and, however 

 far apart they may at first be, in time they will 

 approximate. The operation, which is recom- 

 mended, any Member of the Royal College of 

 Veterinary Surgeons will execute ; and, as in skilful 

 hands, it is never dangerous, so it should, on no 

 account, be entrusted to quacks or pretenders. For 

 some irregularities, however, there is no help; for 

 instance, when the lower jaw exhibits only four per- 

 manent incisors, which is by no means unusual, and 

 which, in the majority of cases, could be traced to 

 the efforts made to extract the corner milk teeth, 



