Answer:
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
Good memory, skin like the sea. A great beast I am, yet vermin frightens me. What am I?
Ten men's strength, ten men's length. Ten men can't break me, yet a young boy walks off with me. What am I?
I dig out tiny caves and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. Sooner or later everybody needs my help yet many people are afraid to let me help them.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?