 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?  Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Page 95by Percy Society - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1913 - 784 pages
...REAL WALTER. BAKER & CO. Ltd. Established 178O DORCHESTER, MASS. ST. NICHOLAS VOL. XL JUNE, 1913 No. 8 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... | |
 | Eulalie Osgood Grover - Readers - 1914 - 168 pages
...please/' And "Thank you, sir, for that," And not a soul will ever dream We're only pussy-cats. HOW MANY As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? (One) 85 OVER IN THE MEADOW Over in the meadow, In the sand, in the sun, Lived an... | |
 | Virgil Mores Hillyer - Child development - 1915 - 354 pages
...twelve, A man must delve. Bow, wow, wow, Whose dog art thou? Little Tom Tinker's dog, Bow, wow, wow. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. April showers... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 pages
...fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again. (An egg.) As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? (One.) Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap; In comes four legs... | |
 | Poetry - 1915 - 494 pages
...fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again. (An egg.) As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? (One.) Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap; In comes four legs... | |
 | BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT - 1916 - 132 pages
...instead of me. JACK Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, J ack jump over the candlestick. GOING TO ST. IVES As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven...kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives¿ 55— 4¿¿-SS' THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER Thirty days hath September, ¿ April,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Agricultural colleges - 1917 - 1404 pages
...in such a manner that they shall make just 34; can you do BO too? As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Three jealous husbands with their wives, being ready to pass by night over a river,... | |
 | Walter Scott Monroe - Arithmetic - 1917 - 182 pages
...in such a manner that they shall make just 34; can you do so too? As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Three jealous husbands with their wives, being ready to pass by night over a river,... | |
 | Mary MacLane - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 342 pages
...of all the women he had married and wondered if they had liked it. And I mused in my placid brain, 'As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. ' It was the only thought in my mind as I waited boredly for him to have done. (It's no good struggling.)... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...Arithmeticus Virginia, Nevada I don't know. Sketches Old and New Answers to Correspondents 'i Unknown As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Source unknown Wittgenstein, Ludwig The process of calculating brings about just... | |
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