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Six legs two heads two hands one long nose. Yet I use only four legs Wherever I go.
I am a fruit with seed on the outside.
Used left or right I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up I vie for sweet success used down I cause men great duress.
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
I sit in a corner while travelling around the world.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.