By the same author: "What have I got in my pocket?" But I shan't trouble you to answer that. Today, the second half of Gollum's third guess is correct.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?
          ~Lewis Carroll

It bears thee many a mile away,
 And yet its place it changes ne'er;
It has no pinions to display,
 And yet conducts thee through the air.

It is the bark of swiftest motion
 That every weary wanderer bore;
With speed of thought the greatest ocean
 It carries thee in safety o'er;
 One moment wafts thee to the shore.
          ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

What is the broadest water and the least jeapardy to pass over?
          ~The Demaundes Joyous

Once I was water, full of scaly fish;
But, by a new decision, Fate has changed
My nature: having suffered fiery pangs,
I now gleam white, like ashes or bright snow.
          ~St. Aldhelm of Malmesbury

My habitation's in a wood,
And I'm at anyone's command.
I often do more harm than good;
If once I get the upper hand,
I never fear a champion's frown;
Stout things I often times have done;
Brave soldiers, I can fell them down,
I never fear their sword nor gun.
          ~The Amusing Riddle Book

We are little airy Creatures,
All of diff'rent Voice and Features,
One of us in Glass is set,
One of us you'll find in Jet,
T'other you may see in Tin,
And the fourth a Box within,
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.
          ~Jonathan Swift

What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?
          

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