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You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
He stands beside the road. In a purple cap at tattered green cloak. Those who touch him, curse him.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
You can hold it without using your hands or your arms. What is it?
Why was the cook arrested?