Answer:
I am a certain five-letter word and become shorter when you add two letters to me. What am I?
I am owned by Old McDonald.
Though I am only two words I have thousands of letters in me
When I come in from sea to shore twenty paces you'll see No less no more.
I stink in living but when dead smells good.
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.