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the part once, which will be quite sufficient j after the part 

 becomes sore he will heal it up with copperas water, and 

 after it has healed up both horses will be starred alike. 



There are some dealers who even go a little further than 

 ordinary means to deceive the unwary; for instance, if some 

 gay fellow comes along, and wants a fine, dashing, stylish 

 horse, that can go, the dealer will take a little turpentine 

 and rub inside the thighs, and when the gay fellow takes 

 up his lines to try him, he will say on his return that he 

 never drove a more dashing animal, and will make the 

 purchase only to find out that the next day he has a dull, 

 heavy brute of an animal. 



Before I close this chapter, I have one more remark to 

 make, and as our next division treats on the age of horses, 

 shall only here expose another of the devices practiced to 

 deceive the inexperienced. The age of a horse is known 

 by certain marks in the teeth. 



When these are w r orn out by age, artificial marks are 

 sometimes made, to make the horse appear younger than 

 he really is. It often happens, also, that some of the suck- 

 ing, or colt's teeth, are drawn out, in which case they are 

 soon replaced by horse's, or permanent teeth ; this is done 

 with a view to make a horse of three or four years old ap- 

 pear to be five. 



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The horse has, at five years old, forty teeth, viz., twen- 

 ty-four molar or jaw teeth (twelve in each jaw, and six on 

 each side), twelve incisors, or front teeth, being six in each 

 jaw, and four tushes, one on either side of each jaw, and 

 situated between the molar and incisor teeth. In mares 



