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Two little holes in the side of a hill. Just as you come to the cherry-red mill.
What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?
What points the way without a hand. It floats on water but exists on land?
how many words are in those books
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?