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Very helpful if you intend to go gently down a river.
White and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What is it?
There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
One might hang a locket from this
It speaks without a tongue, and listens without ears.
Break me and I am better immediately set and harder to be broken again.