<><><><><><><>"Wilfred the Lonely Tick"<><><><><><><>
******************************By Ricky1024********************************************
"Once upon a time in a place not far from you lived a family of ticks."
"They managed to etch out a meager existence surviving on their host cattle!"
"Always well fed, 'The 'Tick-a-Tee' family was as happy as a honey bee!"
"Until..
"Hi yee-all and welcome to Fan Story!"
'This is Annie Oakley the fastest and most accurate sharp-shooter west of that damn state of Mississippi!"
"Let's see what Ricky's got cooking up for you reviewers, people like moms an dads back home and finally God!"
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"Good job Annie as always!"
"Note- Annie Oakley always narrates my "Shed a Tear" and "Shed More Tears Fairy Tales and Fables!"
"OK now lets continue...
"Racking my brain...
"OK, Got IT!"
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"And the farm went shallow from lack of rain and the farmer went broke!"
"Him and his family left for Nebraska after auctioning off the cattle!"
"Ant that is where this incredible but sad fairy tale and fable begins...
{In rhyme}
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"Dad?
"Yes Wilfred?"
"Why did the animals leave Dad?"
"Well as far as I can reckon, the Farmer was beckoned!"
"Beckoned?
"'Wilfred wonders.
No water to feed his crops, no sun, in the sky, all of his hopes and dreams just died!'
His dad stated.
"Son, when a humans day is done we never wonder why...
"Ours is just to do or die!"'
"What's the use to just cry?"
"Cry daddy?"
Wilfred wonders why again.

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"Yes, Humans show their pain but different from us."
The dad answers.
"Something we can't do son for we are a lower life-form just a tick but a 'Rocky Mountain Tick!"
"Does that make me special of blessed?"
"Blessed, I guessed but you now must leave my nest!!!
"You have your own, little, quest!"
But daddy?
'No buts about it!!!
"So...
"Lets see..
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"Yes, Wilfred left the nest on his quest as there was no more blood to feast."
{To say the least!}
"Sad and dejected, lonely and hungry, he traveled {what seemed} for miles and dreamed of cattle blood...
"Fresh cattle blood trickling down hid tiny throat and filling his tiny but aching belly!"
"Like bee to the honey or sugar to you and me!"
"Lets see...
"Hmmm...
"Tired and dozing...
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"Wake up Ricky!"
"It's 'Fancy-Pansy Nancy!"
"Thanks dear just a little doze...
"I suppose?"
"I'm going home!"
"Ok, I will call you later ali-a-gator?"
"OK, Brain is refreshed, and no to finish Wilfred's quest!"
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"He came to a little brook and was fascinated by the boy who was fishing named Fred!"
"What are you doing little boy?"
Grining, the boy answered like this...
"I'm just a boy and your just a tick!"
"We have crossed paths and will again my tickened friend'
"So, Wilfred traveled on and on and had not met a single cattle let alone a host! of beast {to say the least}."
"Famished from lack of nourishment {it's been 77 days} 'Wilfred the Hungry Tick' died that day the say...
"Died from lack of love, died from lack of companionship, and died from hunger that day in May down under but...
A blessing was dispensed and Wilfred went to the Heaven's above and no longer was he just a measly tick but now an Angel of love consoling all the tiny creatures below from above!"

The End.
"Hi ye-all and wasn't that so, so, sad but Ricky always ends these things nicely!"
"See- ye all cow-kids and reviewers when Ricky's next...
"Shed More Tears Fairy Tales and Fables!"
Annie..