Mitch's hoof pressed down on the amulet. Soon a human hand grasped it. The naked gringo stared down at the smaller Mexican lying in the puddle of Mitch's own milk. Trying to recite the words exactly as the magician had said them to him last night, Mitch plunged the amulet into Paco's shoulder. Paco screamed as his flesh burned.
Mitch stepped back grinning evilly, his penis swelled and pointed toward the ceiling. "Now the hoof will be on the other foot, spic boy!"
Outside, the screech of brakes belonging to a heavy truck could be heard. Paco had called his girlfriend's father to come collect a bull at Mitch's address.
"You're going bovine, now!" Mitch grinned.
His grin changed to a grimace, he dropped the amulet. His fingers could no longer hold it. The amulet rolled out the kitchen door.
Paco grinned in relief, until he realized that he was changing too. His clothing ripped as his new bovine muscles swelled. Coarse black hairs sprouted over both men's hides.
The farmer Felix Moreno found the door ajar, and walked in. He picked up the amulet he found laying on the hall floor, and entered the kitchen to find a bull and a cow doing what comes naturally.
"Paco? Paco only said there was one animal. When the beasts parted, Moreno looped leads around both animals, he always had a few in his baggy overalls. Only Mitch and Paco knew which was the male and which was the female, and neither was in a position to tell anyone else. The two mated again on their ride out to Mr. Moreno's ranchito.