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My father talked of a poem they tough in high school about teeth in a horse;s mouth.
Anyone know it?
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I have never heard of one.I have articles of aging a horse by the teeth and know of the saying "Never look a gift horse in the mouth"
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Only thing that comes to mind is the guy with the speech impediment, story ended with 'let me say that differently, can I see her run'
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Don't know the poem but,
Uncle had a stallion that reached over and grabbed me by the top of my shoulder, I was about 9 or 10, the pain was 'special' my legs drew up in the fetal position and there I hung from his mouth............
PS: If you don't KNOW, horses or hores's can bite like a sumbeotch.....
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Is it this one?:
A Poem on How To Tell The Age of Horses: To tell the age of any horse, inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, and every fear and doubt dispel. Two middle "nippers" you behold Before the colt is two weeks old; Before eight weeks two more will come; eight months, "the corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear. From middle two in just one year; In two years the second pair; in three the "corners," too, are bare. At two the middle "nippers" drop; at three the second pair can't stop; When four year old the third pair goes; at five a full new set he shows. The deep black spots will pass from view, at six years from the middle two; The second pair at seven years; At eight the spot each "corner" clears. From middle "nippers," upper jaw, at nine the black spots will withdraw; The second pair at ten 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 we know no more.
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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Don't know the poem but,
Uncle had a stallion that reached over and grabbed me by the top of my shoulder, I was about 9 or 10, the pain was 'special' my legs drew up in the fetal position and there I hung from his mouth............
PS: If you don't KNOW, horses or hores's can bite like a sumbeotch..... “Hores’s” with no teeth would be preferable. 😉
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I will have to keep that. Pretty darn accurate. Here is the total scoop on aging equines up thru 30 years.However anything past 18 or so is questionable https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/...rticle=1135&context=extension_curall
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