 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with 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...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 be. CLIII. I HAD a little... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with 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...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 be. CUII. I HAD a little... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with 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...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 be. CLIII.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLXXXVII. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...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... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with 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...sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? CXXXIII. [THE HOLLY TREE.] HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The king could not read it,... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...bird's nest. They found a bird s nest, with 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...sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? 132. [THE HOLLY TREE.] i HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The king could not read it,... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - Counting-out rhymes - 1847 - 118 pages
...in his hand, a stone in his throat, — If 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...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 her arm ; She could sing... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...friends to insert the following puzzle; it is very old, but it may be new to some of our readers, — As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with fifty wives, And every wife had fifty sacks, And every sack had fifty cats, And every cat had fifty... | |
 | James Diman Green - Malden (Mass.) - 1850 - 124 pages
...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 sack...seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives." I never could get that through my head. [Great laughter.] Lindley Murray was our... | |
 | sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1852 - 502 pages
...Ives, I met seven wives ; Each wife had seven sacks ; Each sack had seven cats ; Each cat had ssven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives— How many were there going to St. Ives?" " How many incurable old women have I seen ?" said I to him. " He could not," he replied, " tell me... | |
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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? 
