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What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?
I am free for the taking. Through all of your life, though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
The strangest creature you'll ever find has two eyes in front and a hundred behind.
It floats over the land, It cuts the tallest mountain, Its voice is like a fountain, Its body like a snake, Will flow into a lake.
What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?