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I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night.
Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble
My first is nothing but a name; my second is more small; my whole is of so little fame it has no name at all.
I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg. I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg. I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole. I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole.
What is weightless but it needs two person to hold it?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.