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AND HORNS ON THE TOADS
and sucked that baby's diaper off and never touched the baby
nor Paul. Baby was jest as naked as the day he was born when
that cyclone took off again, before Paul knowed what was hap-
pening. And his mama said, 'I told you not to stand out there
when a cyclone was comin'.'
"Well, they had an old dominecker rooster that made a run
for the henhouse when he seen the cyclone-animals know when
cyclones is comin'. While this old dominecker was stretched
out flat a-running, the cyclone caught him and took every
feather he owned-picked him jest as clean as the palm of your
hand; wasn't but one feather left and that was a tailfeather-
one tailfeather. And that old rooster died of embarrassment.
He wouldn't go round the other chickens after that.
"The cyclone reached into a shed, a harness shed, where
my sister had a banty hen settin' on twelve eggs in a little ole
shackly box. It sucked that box and that banty hen and her
eggs all out together and just twirled 'em. Paul said he seen
em go and said it looked like an airplane propeller jest a-whirlin'
yonder and he said, 'Well, that's goodbye banty hen and eggs.'
That cyclone jest set 'em down as easy as a tabby cat carrying a
kitten near Onion Creek under a big mattress that it blowed
outa somebody's house. It was sorter humped up over the box
to leave way for air and walking out. It kept that banty hen
warm and kept that hail - you know it hailed awful hard
during that cyclone-from hittin' her, I reckin, because she
brought off eleven chickens outa them eggs jest two days later.
Their feathers was kinda twirley around on 'em-the fuzz was
twirled around where they had twirled around inside of them
eggs.
"Another funny thing about that cyclone was the way it hit
old man Hardkoff's dairy. He was milkin'-it hit late in the after-
noon about four or five o'clock. He had all his cows' heads-
twenty-four Holstein cows-in stanchions. It jerked them cows'
bodies off the heads-the heads jest flopped down, twenty-four
heads-and he never did find what went with them cows, never50
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. And Horns on the Toads, book, 1959; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38856/m1/63/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.