and they likewise well know, that _dead_ horses, any more than _dead men_, tell no tales. TEAL—is a well-known wild fowl, much esteemed for the table. A teal is of the form, shape, and make of the wild duck and widgeon, but a degree smaller than the latter, which is equally so from the former. TEETH—are the arrangement of small bones in the mouth of a horse, for the particular purpose of mastication; and by which the AGE also may be ascertained. (See COLT.) The teeth are of a much harder texture than any other bones in the body, which seems to have been necessary for the execution of the office they are assigned by Nature. A horse come to maturity, is in possession of forty teeth, (including the tushes,) which are thus distinguished: four-and-twenty of these are called _grinders_, and situate on the sides of the upper and lower jaws above the _tushes_, and are of no use in discovering the age. With respect to the other sixteen, twelve of them are called _colt's teeth_ till upwards of two years old, (when they begin to shed;) and the remaining four are denominated _tushes_; but _they_ never make the least appearance till rising, or full five years old. The twelve colt's teeth are six in front above, and the same below; four of these (that is, two above, and two below) exfoliate annually, beginning at the middle two, and continue shedding the neighbouring two in succession for the next two years, till they are succeeded by the entire new set in front, when the horse is five years old. These new teeth, upon their appearance, are distinguished by different appellations: the first four are called _nippers_; the next, _middle teeth_; and the last, _corner teeth_. The four nippers are the centrical four, (that is, two _above_, and two _below_:) these he sheds when about two years and a half old, varying a little in the time, according as he may have been an early or a backward colt. The middle teeth, as they are called, one on each side the nippers above and below, exfoliate, and are followed by others about the same time the following year, when the colt is three and a half, (called, rising four:) in this state the teeth continue till the decline of the following year, when the corner teeth are shed likewise, and it is then said, he has lost all his colt's teeth: when the successors to the corner teeth are full shelled on both sides, the horse has then completed his fifth year. It is a practice with DEALERS in general, so soon as they have purchased a _four year old_ in a country fair, to immediately _wrench out_ the corner teeth with _a key_, or some other convenient instrument, that its successor may have the credit of spontaneous appearance, upon which the horse is sold to an inexperienced purchaser as a FIVE YEAR OLD, though, in reality, no more than _four_.