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Two in a whole and four in a pair. And six in a trio you see. And eight's a quartet but what you must get. Is the name that fits just one of me?
What has a bottom right at the top?
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I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own.
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?