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A cowboy rode into Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode back on friday. How is that possible?
I am never quite what I appear to be. Straight-forward I seem, but it's only skin deep. For mystery most often lies beneath my simple speech. Sharpen your wits, open your eyes, look beyond my exteriors, read me backwards, forwards, upside down. Think and answer the question...
I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear.
Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome
What is often returned but is never borrowed?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.