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I am a band that does not perform, sing, or act. What am I?
Face with a tree skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Turns me on my backs and open up my stomach. You will be the wisest of men though at start a lummox.
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?