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What type of dress can never be worn?
I have no head and a tail I lack but I do have arms and legs and back; I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot 'tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable) I still should be placed at the head of the table.
In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast or iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?
Where I am there is no south, west, nor east, and weather is not fit for man or beast. What am I?
I have a ring but no fingers. I used to stay still all the time but nowadays I follow you around.
Why was the cook arrested?