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If two is company and three is a crowd, what is four and five?
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
So cold damp and dark I am. To stay you would refrain yet those who occupy me do never complain.
Of the king I am blue and of the peasant I am red. Of the frog I am cold and of the dog I am hot instead. What am I?
I am a certain five-letter word and become shorter when you add two letters to me. What am I?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.