Answer:
I am a precious little thing, dancing and eating all the time. Watch me from a distance, so you can feel my warm and gentle love. But don't come to close or my next meal you could be!
What measures out time until in time all is smashed to it?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.
What kind of running means walking?
I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
Why was the cook arrested?