Answer:
What stays on the ground but never gets dirty?
You heart it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
What can you share and still have all for yourself?
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
Although I'm not an insect, some people found me very difficult to exterminate. They called me something like 'insane priest.' The first half of my name means the same as 'scrape,' & my last three letters are a metal. Who am I?
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.