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You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
I have no bed to sleep and no palace to live. I don't have a single coin but I am known as king. What am I?
In wealth I abound; in water I stand; as a fencer I'm valued all over the land; at Venice I'm famous; by farmers I'm prized; respected by law yet huntsmen despised; consternation and ruin ensue when I break; And the beasts of the forest advantage won't take.
I am the black child of a white father a wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me even though there is no cause for grief and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
I can be swallowed But I can also swallow you.
I flow from the Homerβs mouth when he sees doughnuts.