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Show The Age of Horses. (Pustothls In your hat.) To tell the ago of any horso. Inspect the lower Jaw of course; Tho six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt nnd fear dispel. Two middle "nippers", yon behold Hcforo the colt is two weeks old. Hefore eight weeks two more will como: Eight months tho"corneni" cut tho gum The outside grooves will disappear From the mlddlo two lu just ouo yoar, In two years from tho tecond pair; In three, the comers, too, are bare At two the middle "nippers" drop; At three. the second pair can't stop. When four years old tho third pair goes; At five a full'iicw set ho shows. Tho deep black spots will pass from vlow At six years from tho mlddlo two. The second pair at soven years; At eight the spot each "corner" clears. From middle "nippers" upper jaws, At, nine the back spots will withdraw. The second pair at tcu are white; Eleven finds the"corners" light. As time goes on, the horsemen know The oval teeth three-sided grow; They longer get, project before Till twenty , when wo know no moro. ex |