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While I did live, I food did give, which many one did daily eat. Now being dead, you see they tread me under feet about the street.
What kind of fish chases a mouse?
What animal keeps the best time?
I move very slowly and carry my house on my back. What am I?
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.