While husbands do the swearing.

Three husbands went out in the hay mows to hide

In the hay mows to hide where their wives ne’er looked.

Each said as he rolled himself o’er on his side,

“I guess I will snooze, for I know I am booked,

For men may swear, but women will dust,

And before I’ll move that stove I’ll be cussed—

I’ll stay right here till morning!”

Three Judges sat up on their benches to judge

Three cases that came from a house-cleaning row;