The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . in this figure, which is the skullof a horse. Now, when you eat an apple you do very much as the cow or the horse does with the grass; with your front cutting teeth you bite off a piece ; then it is pushed back where the grinders are, and they grind it up into a soft pulp before you swallow it. The cow does not always use her cutting teeth in the way that I have mentioned. Seeher as she eats hay ; shedoes not cut this as shedoes the grass. Wi
The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . in this figure, which is the skullof a horse. Now, when you eat an apple you do very much as the cow or the horse does with the grass; with your front cutting teeth you bite off a piece ; then it is pushed back where the grinders are, and they grind it up into a soft pulp before you swallow it. The cow does not always use her cutting teeth in the way that I have mentioned. Seeher as she eats hay ; shedoes not cut this as shedoes the grass. Withthose front cutting teethshe merely takes up thehay, and it is graduallydrawn back into themouth, the grinders all. the while keeping atwork on it. If the hayis in a rack, she polls itout with her cutting: teeth. It is the samewith the horse. That beautiful andsingular animal, the gi-raffe, which you see here, has these two kinds of teeth. This ^^ MORE ABOUT THE TEETH. 23 Tearing teeth. Stomachs of the cow. animal, when of full size, is three times the height of a tall man;it lives on the leaves of trees, which it crops with its front teeth,grinding them up with its large back teeth, as the cow and horsedo their hay and grass. You notice that your tearing teeth are not nearly as long andpowerful as these teeth are in dogs, cats, tigers, etc. What isthe reason of this? It is because, although you eat meat as theydo, you can, with your knife and fork, cut up your food. Theydo not know enough to use such things, and so God has giventhem long, sharp teeth to tear their food to pieces. The cow grinds the grass and hay twice. So do the sheep, thedeer, the camel, the giraffe, and many other animals. See t
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