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BISHOPING, HOW DETECTED. [BOOK IV. 



seventeen months old. After this period the whole 



six teeth wear even, and 

 so continue smooth and 

 unmarked until two years 

 and a half, the corner 

 teeth being still the least 

 perfect, the front ones 



* 2| rjears old. largest. 



During this state of the mouth, if the unprin- 

 cipled dealer would give his animal's teeth the 

 mark of three or four years old, he is said to " file" 

 two or four front teeth hollow in the middle ; though 

 in fact it is burnt in with an acid that is capable of 

 destroying the hardest substances. But this falsi- 

 fication may be detected, 1st, by comparing the 

 upper with the lower jaw, which they omit " to 

 file ;" 2nd, by noticing whether the marked teeth 

 have the ring before described, as pertaining to the 

 sucking teeth, but does not belong to the horse 

 teeth — lastly, these latter are larger, of a brownish 

 yellow tinge, and soon acquire tartar, very unlike 

 the fine whiteness of the sucking teeth. 



On rising three years 

 old, the two fore teeth 

 (below, and two above) fall 

 out and are replaced by 

 two horse teeth, having 

 the hollow mark in the 

 Rising 3 years. middle, as shown in the 





Cut by Mr. James Lee from drawings by Newton Fielding, Esq. 



