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What goes up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?
I am the most famous dinner ever attended. What am I?
I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot. What am I?
What can one catch that is not thrown?
I am of several different kinds, but the one you pick doesn't do its job. 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.