Answer:
What animal dwells in water and best known for its work ethic?
With four oars it swims but it is always at home. Its back is like armor, tougher than chrome. What is it?
Long slim and slender. Dark as homemade thunder. Keen eyes and peaked nose. Scares the Devil wherever it goes.
When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day.
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard. Who am I?