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With a halo of water and a tongue of wood; stone as skin long I stood.
I am a piece of paper that takes most people 3 or 4 years to get. What am I?
I'm a kind of cup that doesn't hold water, but makes a lot of noise repeatedly. What am I?
I am a pretty one, fluttering in the pale blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
I have Eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.