 | 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... | |
 | Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883 - 984 pages
...St. Ires I met a man with 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 there going to St. Ives ! " — -One ; and after we had been there, we felt sure he never went again... | |
 | 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, whether... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Cornwall (England : County) - 1884 - 168 pages
...St. Ives I met a man with 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 there going to St. Ives ? " — One ; and after we had been there, we felt sure he never went again... | |
 | 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 the man... | |
 | 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 took two... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 216 pages
...without, Four corners round about. [A chimney.] A RIDDLE. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives ? This is the Key of the Kingdom. In that Kingdom there is a city ; in that city there is a street... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? As I was going up Pippen Hill, • Pippen Hill was dirty, — There I met... | |
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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? 
