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I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Pronounced as one letter but written with three always in evil never in good and always in zebra never in animal. What is it?
I am a red drum which sound without being touched and grow silent when I am touched.
I have a hundred legs but cannot stand a long neck but no head and I eat the maid's life. What am I?
You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
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.