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Rub-a-dub-dub /

UB-a-dub-dub!
Round a large foaming tub
In a yard stand three chatt’ring old women ;

They regard not old saws,
Or would stay within doors
When they wash out their old dirty linen.

 

All are deaf, it appears,
For each word meets the ears
Of their neighbours ; for loud they complain
In their spirited chat,
First of this thing, then that,
And how hubby got tipsy again.