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What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
Do what he says and you'll be fine, don't and you lose the game.
It doesn't live within a house, nor does it live without. Most will use it when they come in, and again when they go out.
You heart it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
Don't do this in the shallow end.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.