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.