 | Edward Pearson Moses - 1895 - 116 σελίδες
...on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes. As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks ; Every sack...cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, They were two bonny lasses; They made their house upon the sea, And covered... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1896 - 336 σελίδες
...twelfth, eleventh, and tenth centuries.3 Daniel Adams gives in his arithmetic the following stanza : "As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives. Every...sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives ? " Compare this with Fibonaci's " Seven old women go to Rome," etc., and with the problem in the Ah1nes... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 296 σελίδες
...would like to give away, Nor any wish to keep. [j ' AS I was going to St. Ives, J~\ 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> I went through the garden gap, Who should I meet but Dick Red-cap ! A stick... | |
 | Robert Petsch - 1898 - 158 σελίδες
...ähnlich ist eine englische Fassung (Halliwcll, 132): As I was golng to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Eaery cat had seven kits: Kits and cats. sacks and wives, How many were there going to St. Icts't Natürlich... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1899 - 120 σελίδες
...Says the great bell of Bow. 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...kits : Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? As busy as a bee. As blind as a bat. As like as two peas. Forgive and forget.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1903 - 138 σελίδες
...Huzza! 'twill last for ages long, With a gay lady. 75 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 busy as a bee. As blind as a bat. 76 " Oh, father," said a little Frog... | |
 | Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, N.H.) - 1903 - 370 σελίδες
...to 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 going to St. Ives?" Then there was the dilemma in which the man found himself who had come to the river with a fox, a goose,... | |
 | Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, N.H.) - 1903 - 386 σελίδες
...to 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 going to St. Ives?" Then there was the dilemma in which the man found himself who had come to the river with a fox, a goose,... | |
 | M. Halley, Leonard Lemmon - 1903 - 196 σελίδες
...never be worse, And give the poor singer a penny. A RIDDLE As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives ? THE THREE BEARS... | |
 | 1905 - 122 σελίδες
...a little handkerchief to wipe his little nose, And a pair of little garters to tie his little hose. As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives, Every...cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives ? Miss Jane had a bag, and a mouse was in it, She opened the bag, he was out in a minute ; The Cat... | |
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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? 
