 As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?  Notes and Queries - Page 821866Full view - About this book
 | Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 pages
...I met a man with seven wives;— Each wife had seven sacks, — Each tack had seven cats, — Each cat had seven kits,— Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,— How many were there going toSt.Ives? 210 This is the horse, and the hound, and the horn,— That belonged to the man who sowed... | |
 | Caroline M. Churchill - California - 1877 - 268 pages
...was going to Saint Ives I met seven wives; each wife had seven sacks; each sack had seven cats; each cat had seven kits — kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to Saint Ives? I am not prepared to state whether the foregoing can he classed with conundrums,... | |
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - Europe - 1878 - 258 pages
...nursery rhymes, and St. Ives had long before been introduced to me by a certain verse which records that, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives : every...every sack had seven cats ; every cat had seven kits." In respectful remembrance of the kits, cats, sacks and wives, and also to deliver a letter intrusted... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1871 - 618 pages
...sends us a riddle which, although perhaps it is not new, we do not recollect having seen before : — " As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives ; Every...cats ; Every cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks, wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?" The answer is, of course, found in the first line. Rejected... | |
 | Nursery rhymes, English - 1883 - 75 pages
...to keep. 40 RELA TIONSHIP. AS I WAS GOING TO ST. IVES. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives ; Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...cats, Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were going to St. Ives ? RELATIONSHIP. THERE were three sisters in a hall, There came... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1883 - 638 pages
...compelled to remember the old riddle about St. Ives: " As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat bad seven kittens, kittens, cata, sacks, and wives, how many men were going to St. Ives?" Before night... | |
 | England - 1884 - 804 pages
...Ivés I met a man with seven wives. Each wife liad seven sacks ; Ivi -I i sack had seven catR ; Each cat had seven kits ; Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,— How many were there going to St. Ivés i" — -One ; and after we had been there, we felt sure he never went again ! There were two... | |
 | Caroline M. Churchill - Belarusians - 1884 - 356 pages
...was going to Saint Ives I met seven wives; each wife had seven sacks; each sack had seven cats; each cat had seven kits — kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to Saint Ives? I am not prepared to state whetl^er the foregoing can be classed with conundrums,... | |
 | Amanda Bartlett Haris - 1886 - 122 pages
...was going to Saint Ives I met seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to Saint Ives ? And there was the other, which was an aggravating puzzle to us infants, about... | |
 | Folklore - 1918 - 620 pages
...Ives, I met a man with seven wives, , Each wife had seven sacks; In each sack were seven cats; Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Jves? Just I.1 820. Timothy Titus took two ties to tie up two tall trees. If Timothy Titus... | |
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