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What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What can speak without a tongue and listen without ears?
It carries paper of the most important sort but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?
It makes me warm and secure.
How did the farmer find his wife?