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The shorter I am the bigger I am.
What has a bottom at the top?
I tremble at each breath of air and yet can heaviest burdens bear.
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
An open ended barrel I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh and the flesh is alive.
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn't get wet. How does he do that?