What is harder to catch the faster you run?


What is a shark's favorite game?


I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.


Some say we are red, some say we are green. Some play us, some spray us.

What are we?


Many-manned scud-thumper, Maker of worn wood, Shrub-ruster, Sky-mocker, Rave! Portly pusher, Wind-slave.

What am I?