Answer:
If you are to keep it, you must first give it to me. What is it?
What is full of holes but still holds water?
If you can get this professional's attention you can get where you need to go for a price.
Long and thin, red within, with a nail at the end.
Which weighs more? A pound of iron or a pound of feathers?
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.