Am a 5 letter word and u can eat me. if u remove my 1st letter i'll be a form of crime, if u remove the first two letters i'm a type of animal and if u remove the first and last letter i'm a type of music. what am i?

d. cassius cannot believe that a weakling like caesar has become so great.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

answer: d

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