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= = = = =The Adventures of Buffalo Bill and Teep= Buffalo Bill was grazing across the beautiful grassland as Teep the oxpecker joined him on his back, eating the parasites. Buffalo Bill continued grazing and then comes upon a tasty spot of grass. He is unaware that there is small mushrooms and bacteria in this grass and eats it up. After he moved on from this spot and continues roaming across the grasslands he started feeling sick to his stomach and he upchucks. Teep, his friend, becomes afraid that Bill might be sick or has a virus and decides that it would be better to stay away from him, so he wont catch the virus or disease. He stays at home for about a week and starves because he only feels safe eating with Bill! After about a week he goes to check on Bill with a little bird germ mask. He discovers that Bill is all better and he can eat off him again! He threw off is germ mask and started eating all the parasites as fast as we could he was so hungry. Later that night when Teep got home he noticed how much the flowers across the way had grown, his favorite are milkweed and stinging nettle.That night Teep had a wonderful sleep and Buffalo Bill and him continued eating together!

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