Answer:
What get's more wet while it dries?
Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried
Timid or weak people are said to not have these.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.
My second is performed by my first, and it is thought a thief by the marks of my whole might be caught.
How did the farmer find his wife?