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I am black within and red without; with four corners round about. What am I?
Good memory, skin like the sea. A great beast I am, yet vermin frightens me. What am I?
I welcome the day with a show of light. I steathily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn but by noon, I'm gone. What am I?
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
I am an insect and the first part of my name is the name of another insect. What am I?
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.