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They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
I bubble and laugh and spit water in your face. I am no lady, and I don't wear lace.
My first master has four legs, my second master has two. My first I serve in life, my second I serve in death. Tough I am, yet soft beside. Against ladies cheeks I often reside.
My first is in wield, sever bones and marrow. My second is in blade, forged in cold steel. My third is an arbalest, and also in arrows. My fourth is in power, plunged through a shield. My fifth is in honor, and also in vows. My last will put an end to it all.
how many words are in those books
What goes up the hill and down the hill, And spite of all, yet stand still?