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I am a candy that looks like a shepherdβs staff.
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I am a sharp looking horse with a flaxen tail. The longer I run the shorter my tail becomes.
I am heavy forward, but backward I'm not. What am I?
I have lakes but no water forests but no trees and cities but no buildings. What am I?
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?