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Every night I'm told what to do and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold
Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; have two eyes, can't see a thing. What am I?
I jump when I walk and sit when I stand.
You shoot me but I don't die. You hang me but I don't die. What am I?
When you take away the whole from me there is always some left.
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.