Answer:
We are little airy creatures all of different voice and features one of us in glass is set. One of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin. And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue it can never fly from you.
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Tear me off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead. What am I?
I have a head tail but no arms and legs.
My days are numbered. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.