 | Percy Society - 1841 - 468 Seiten
...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. 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 ? CLII. SEE, see ! what shall I see ? A horse's head where his tail should... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 476 Seiten
...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. 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 ;roing to St. Ives? CLII. SEE, see ! what shall I see ? A horse's head where his tail should... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 Seiten
...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. 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 ? CLII. SEE, see ! what shall I see ? A horse's head where his tail should... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1843 - 332 Seiten
...eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLXXXVII. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many where there going to St. Ives ? SEE, see ! -what shall I see ? A horse's head where his tail should... | |
 | 1846 - 266 Seiten
...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. 131. 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 ? 132. [THE HOLLY TREE.] i HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The... | |
 | 1846 - 300 Seiten
...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. cxxxu. 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 ? CXXXIII. [THE HOLLY TREE.] HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - 118 Seiten
...you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. C ASI 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 ? 89. A CAT came fiddling out of a barn, -^*- With a pair of bag-pipes under... | |
 | James Diman Green - 1850 - 124 Seiten
...from the fable. [Cheers.] In Arithmetic we had that wonderful problem : "As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives ; Every wife had seven sacks, Every...sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives." I never could get that through my head. [Great laughter.] Lindley Murray was our grammarian. We had... | |
 | Johann Wilhelm Wolf - 1855 - 918 Seiten
...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, every wife had 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.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 Seiten
...substantially the old problem over again. I see no difference. A gentleman was going to St. Ives and met seven wives, every wife had seven sacks, every...sacks, and wives, how many were going to St. Ives ? ' ' Must have been a devil of a lot of 'em,' said Uncas. ' Do you know,' said James to Miss Nell,... | |
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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? 
