8. My father have a thing in his yard and he run from yard to yard.
—Dog.
9. My father have a hen in his yard, you kyan’ tell what the chicken be till he hatch.[3]
—Wife; you can’t tell whether the child will be boy or girl until it is born.
10. My father have a thing in his yard, cry for the crop once a year.
—Coffee-pulper.
11. My father has a thing in his yard; the more him feed, the more him hungry.
—Stove.
12. My father have a thing in his yard, have to blind it to use it.
—Scissors.