Kids Riddles

Question: Everyday a peasant must pay the king one pound of gold and leave it on a collection plate in front of his house. Every morning a guard comes by to make sure he has put a pound of gold on the plate. The king collects the gold every six days from the plate. If the peasant only has one six pound block of gold, how can he make only two parallel cuts and still follow the kings rules each day?

Question: How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?

Question: How many letters are in the answer to this riddle?

Question: I'm number three.
But I'm not a number.
I'm hot and cold at the same moment but not at the same time.
I'm number three.
But I'm not a number.

Who or what am I?

Question: Many have heard me, but nobody has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to.What am I?