 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Fannie Wyche Dunn - 1922 - 152 str.
...thumb, And frit, ad lib. ^ ^K^^^-^^O^^ pull'dout a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!" A Riddle 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... | |
 | Fannie Wyche Dunn, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1922 - 152 str.
...put in his thumb, And frit, ad lib. ^ pull'dout a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!" A Riddle 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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 526 str.
...day-break the birds wakened them from their quiet, peaceful slumber. A RIDDLE A) I was going to Saint 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... | |
 | Clara Belle Baker, Edna Dean Baker - 1924 - 240 str.
...tail that she let fly; And every time she went through a gap, A bit of her tail she left in a trap. 59 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... | |
 | Pedro Joseph Lemos - 1923 - 924 str.
...one-sided jump. But say, can you guess riddles? JACK — Try me and see. SAMMIE — All right, here's one. 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... | |
 | Olive Beaupré Miller - 1920 - 466 str.
...candle-light? Yes, and back again ! If your heels are nimble and light, You may get there by candle-light. 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 there... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1925 - 252 str.
...conundrum as much as anybody, and even at the present day I never see in print the lines beginning: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives without a keen sense of pleasure, and of curiosity as to the answer. Nor, if I live to be a hundred,... | |
 | William Crowell Edgar - 1926 - 370 str.
...solution of the ancient riddle which his quizzical father propounded to him: "As I was going to Saint 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... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - 1995 - 180 str.
...differing cry" (FW 215.15-17). The original riddle, as cited by lona and Peter Opie, ends with a twist: 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 there... | |
 | Dexter J Booth - 1995 - 300 str.
...my fortune. (How many talents did the unfortunate man once possess?) 2 When I was going to St Ivés I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks In each sack were seven cats And with each cat were seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St Ivés? 3... | |
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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? 
