12 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 

 DENTITION AND AGE AS SHOWN BY THE TEETH. 



Description of teeth at different ages — Number of a full set — Classes — 

 Bishoping — Explanatory cuts — Shedding — Full mouth — General 

 signs of old age — Comparative age of man and horse — Great age of 

 horses — Zoologists' claim, . . • ... 300 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

 THE LANGUAGE AND SAGACITY OF THE HORSE. 



Author's experiences — Old Dobbin — Nellie Bly — Lady Barebones — ■ 

 Fanny Fern — Cora Linn — Fanny Kenyon — Maggie Dimon — Bel- 

 mont Maid — Golden Rule — Ruf us Molburn's Mare, . . 308 



CHAPTER XL. 

 GRAY HORSES. 



The White Turk — Places White Turk — Imported Messenger — Harris' 

 Hambletonian — Gray Eagle — Crack regiment of the British army — 

 On the American turf — Kitty Bayard — Emma B. — Joe Brown — 

 Miss Russell — Pilot Medium, . 316 



EXHIBITION OF HORSES. 



The first National in Springfield, Mass., in 1853, 319 



CHAPTER XLI. 

 THE HORSE'S FOOT. 



The Wall — The Sole — The Frog — The Bars — Coffin-bone — Pedal 

 bone . .320 



SHOEING HORSES. 



First introduced into England, A.D. 1060 — Public shoers should be re- 

 quired by law to understand the business — Injuries by bad shoeing 

 numerous — Leveling and balancing — No foot, no horse — Never 

 pare the sole or frog — Fit the shoe to the foot — The clip — Use of 

 the rasp in shoeing — Fiber shoes 334 



CHAPTER XLII. 

 THE CHECK REIN. 



Taut checking injurious — The Over-draw check — Study the natural 

 beauty of the horse — Stumbling, 332 



CHAPTER XLIII. 

 A BRIEF HISTORY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



Necessity the mother of invention — First veterinary school of the world, 

 Lyons, France, 1761— First in England, 1795 336 



QUACK MEDICINES. 



Generally well advertised — Opinionated grooms — Veterinary quacks, . 340 



