 | 1883 - 75 str.
...What few would like to give away, Nor any wish to keep. 40 RELA TIONSHIP. 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 had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...big ; He was not very lean, He was not very fat: He '11 do well for a grunt, Says little Jack Sprat. 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,... | |
 | 1883 - 638 str.
...wondering 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, every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat bad seven kittens, kittens, cata,... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...big ; He was not very lean, He was not very fat : He 'll do well for a grunt, Says little Jack Sprat. 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,... | |
 | Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883 - 984 str.
...rest, we planned a visit to that spot immortalised by nursery rhyme — " As I was going to St. Ires 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... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1884 - 168 str.
...given 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, and wives, — . How many... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1886 - 360 str.
...They found a bird's nest with five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. [A Well.] CCXXIX. Ad 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,... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 280 str.
...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... | |
 | 1893 - 112 str.
...o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon ? You 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 had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1899 - 120 str.
...the bells of Stepney. I'm sure I don't know, 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 had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits : Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
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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? 
