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Tall when seated, short when standing.
What build its house with earthen string and ensnares its prey with a biting sting?
A spent round or a slimy critter.
Often cooked as fillet, this meat comes from an animal that swims underwater.
A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.