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My tail is long my coat is brown I like the country I like the town. I can live in a house or live in a shed And I come out to play when you are in bed.
I do not contain flesh feather or scales; yet I have fingers and thumbs.
Where I am there is no south, west, nor east, and weather is not fit for man or beast. What am I?
Angels and pilots work with me.
I have hands but cannot clap
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.