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I bubble and laugh and spit water in your face. I am no lady, and I don't wear lace.
Dies half its life. Lives the rest. Dances without music. Breathes without breath.
What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day in an unplowed field. Which increases without growing, remains whole though it is eaten within and without. Is useless and yet the staple of nations.
What can be swallowed, but can swallow you?
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?