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A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?
You’ll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day in an unplowed field. Which increases without growing, remains whole though it is eaten within and without. Is useless and yet the staple of nations.
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
What did the piece of wood say when he saw the screwdriver and screws approaching?