 | Daniel Adams - 1807 - 248 Seiten
...have as many again as you. How many had each ? л? О If n 3. As I was going to St. Ivés, ¿ VI met seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, /^ Every sack had seven cats, / if- Q* & Every cat had seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, . How many were going to St. Ivcs... | |
 | Johann Wilhelm Wolf - 1855 - 918 Seiten
...then? = fchlesw. holft. fag. f, 508 nr. 21. Simrock nr. 65. 66. 457. II nr. 52. 7. NR. CXXXII: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives,...seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat bad seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were there going to St. IvesT = Simrock nr. 356.... | |
 | L. J. S. - 1866 - 94 Seiten
...guessed it. Here is a riddle for you, Sissy ; you must guess it, it's stupidly easy : — ' " As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had a cat, Each cat had a kit, How many were there going to St. Ives?" Do you give it up... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 Seiten
...man with bandy legs, Bandy legs and crooked toes, I tripped up his heels, and he fell on his nose. SI was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had a sack, Every sack had a cat, Every cat had a kit ; Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there... | |
 | Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 Seiten
...Who put her in? — Little Johnny Green,— Who pulled her out ?— Little Johnny Stout 209 | As I was going to St. Ives.— I met a man with seven wives;— Each wife had seven sacks, — Each tack had seven cats, — Each cat had seven kits,— Kits, cats,... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1879 - 402 Seiten
...! " exclaimed Dick, " is this the St. Ives I've heard of all my life ? " and he repeated — " As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives ; Seven wives had seven sacks, Seven sacks had seven cats, • Seven cats had seven kits, — Kits,... | |
 | 1883 - 638 Seiten
...spectators if the scene were involuntaiily compelled to remember the old riddle about St. Ives: " As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives,...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... | |
 | 1923 - 978 Seiten
...a pail of water; Jack fell down and iroke his crown — And the audience howled with laughter. A SI was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven press agents. Each press agent had seven stories. Each story had seven columns,... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1884 - 168 Seiten
...our horse a forenoon's rest, we planned a visit to that spot immortalised by nursery rhyme — "As I was going 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,... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 280 Seiten
...lost our mittens. The King of Hearts called for the tarts And beat the Knave full sore. As [ = when] I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. The man in the moon Came down too soon. There was a man of our town, And he was wondrous wise. I like... | |
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As I was going 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? 
