 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 σελίδες
...a man ; three legs, a stool; four legs, a dog. ccxcv. 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? CCXCVI. HlTTY PlTTY within the wall, Hitty Pitty without the wall : If you... | |
 | Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Caroline M. Churchill - 1877 - 268 σελίδες
...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, whether... | |
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - 1878 - 258 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 252 σελίδες
...shot if I stay," So he clapped his wings, and flew away. 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? A frog^he would a-wooing go, Sing, heigho, says Rowley, Whether his mother... | |
 | 1878 - 410 σελίδες
...going to St Ives I met seven wives ; Each wile had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cats had seven kits ; Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives ? We have no doubt many boys and girls may have ciphered long and hard over this problem, trying to... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1879 - 402 σελίδες
...met a man with seven wives ; Seven wives had seven sacks, Seven sacks had seven cats, • Seven cats had seven kits, — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?" claimed by a little town in Huntingdonshire of the same name. "The two," he said, "may fight it out.... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 618 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 σελίδες
...fat : He 'll do well for a grunt, Says little Jack Sprat. 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 ? Go to bed first, a golden purse ; Go to bed second, a golden pheasant ; Go... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 σελίδες
...fat: He '11 do well for a grunt, Says little Jack Sprat. 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 ? Go to bed first, a golden purse ; Go to bed second, a golden pheasant; Go... | |
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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? 
