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AND HORNS ON THE TOADS
3. Van Denburgh, I, 413 ff., cited several studies made in Texas.
4. Smith, op. cit., p. 292.
5. Ibid., p. 295.
6. Van Denburgh, op. cit., I, 392.
7. Van Denburgh cited reports from many scientists confirming their
observation of this feat. One researcher reported that as he caught a
number of horned toads in one day his shirt became "as bloody as though
he had been killing hogs."
8. Lorus J. and Margery J. Milne, "The Horned Toad - Desert
Oddity," Audubon Magazine, LI (Nov.-Dec., 1949), 366. Smith, op. cit.,
p. 288, says, "The final touch of the unusual in this genus is the peculiar
ability of some species to squirt blood, to a distance of several feet, from
the eyes...."
9. Van Denburgh, op. cit., I, 364 ff., cites notations as early as 1833.
10. These students, from forty-nine different counties in Texas, were
mostly freshmen who had had no science course in which the facts would
have been explained. Forty-seven of them reported having heard of
horned toads existing in foundation stones, although most did not believe
such stories. Sixteen of the seventy-five reported believing that horned
toads could smoke cigarettes, and some said that they had seen them do it.
11. The Rise, Progress, and Prospect of the Republic of Texas
(London, 1841), I, 135.
12. The information is from Boyce House's Cowtown Columnist (San
Antonio, 1946), "Old Rip, the Eastland Horned Frog," pp. 3-12.
13. As told to me by Professor Benton, College Station, February,
1958.
14. Talking Through My Hats (New York, 1946), pp. 177-78.
15. As related in J. C. Duval's Early Times in Texas (Austin, 1899),
p. 89.
16. Reprinted in the Spirit of the Times, XXIII (May 28, 1853),
172.
17. Charles F. Holder, "A Curious Means of Defense," Scientific
American (Sept. 21, 1901), pp. 186-87.
18. May 12, 1941, pp. 52-53.
19. Newscast, Radio Station WFAA, Dallas.
20. Fred Gipson, Old Yeller (New York, 1956), p. 42.
21. Songs of the Saddlemen (Denver, 1954), "The Horny Toad,"
p. 94.13
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