 | 1898 - 216 σελίδες
...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...Kits, cats, 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... | |
 | 1893 - 112 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 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...Kits, cats, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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? 
