74' THE AGE. 



extending from the mane to the croup: the hairs 

 about the face and forehead become gray, the 

 lips hang apart, the whole countenance has a 

 peculiarly anxious-like expression : and above 

 the eye, a deep pit appears, which along with 

 the eyelids, contribute to form the anxious-like 

 expression so peculiar to a worn out horse. And 

 this leads me to remark another talent which 

 horse-copers have got. In order to hide this 

 cavity over the eye, they prick the skin covering 

 or rather lining it, and blow in a little air, which 

 for a short time fills up the pit, and subtracts 

 not a little from the horse's aged appearance, and 

 thereby deceives the uncautious. This opera- 

 tion is learnedly called "puflfing the glimms." 

 Like bishopping, however, it is beyond comparison 

 far oftener practised about London, than in 

 Scotland. 



I ought to remark that although the teeth are 

 continually wearing, yet as a horse gets old, they 

 appear to grow longer, but they are not really 

 so, it is the shrinking of the bone and gum from 

 them, that produces the apparent elongation. 



I may also here mention a fact, that horses 

 much kept at ffrass, and especially in a sandy 



