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The more holes you cover the lower it goes.
Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it. What is it?
What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?
I have a hundred legs, but cannot stand. I have a long neck, but no head. I cannot see. I'm neat and tidy as can be.
A man went to the hardware store to buy items for his house. 1 would cost $.25. 12 would cost $.50. 122 would cost $.75. When he left the store he had spent $.75, what did he buy?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.