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I have four fingers and a thumb, but I'm not living. What am I?
I'm orange when long I'm white when short. What am I?
I am a shimmering field that reaches far. Yet I have no tracks and am crossed without paths. What am I?
I can fall off a building and live, but in water I will die. What am I?
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?