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In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I am the kind of food monkey likes and people slip on me and fall in cartoons.
I am the word that has three syllables and twenty six letters.
I am not a toy though many use me for pleasure. I have a butt but I cannot poo.
What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
I always have to work with something in my eye. What am I?