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in a state of nature, or at grass, the animal would be 

 necessitated to tear rather than bite its food. The 

 proprietor of such a beast, therefore, can or ought 

 never to turn the creature out, but keep it constantly 

 in the stable, and under many circumstances this 

 would entail inconvenience and expense. There is 

 nothing to be done for such a malformation, but an 

 allowance should be made for it in the price. That 

 the reader may be able to recognise it, a copy of a 

 mouth, in which the deformity was well marked, is 

 here presented. The animal, which was introduced 

 to my notice by my talented friend, Mr. Broad, of 

 Paddington, was twenty -one years of age; and 

 though more conspicuous cases of the kind are some- 

 times seen, the one I have chosen for illustration 

 shows a rather greater malformation than is usually 

 met with ; but, nevertheless, it well illustrates the 

 point upon which I have been dwelling. 



