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In your fire you hear me scream, creaking and whining, yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
A reaction to being spooked that takes its name from waterfowl
In this place, people lie, people cry, and people ask why. In this place, people sleep, people weep, and people's solitude, they keep. What is it?
What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the evening and 3 legs in the night?
I have an eye but cannot see, You'll head inside when you see me.
If it’s information you seek, come and see me. If it’s pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?