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A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.
Long slim and slender. Dark as homemade thunder. Keen eyes and peaked nose. Scares the Devil wherever it goes.
In the fields a frightful thing. Watch it and you will find, it has a pitchfork in the front, and a broom back behind.
What kind of dog chases anything red?
This noble creature has the embarrassing inability to get up once it's been flipped onto its back.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?