| Noble Lovely Prentis - 1878 - 258 str.
...before been introduced to me by a certain verse which records that, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives : every wife had seven sacks ; every sack had seven cats ; every cat had seven kits." In respectful remembrance of the kits, cats, sacks and wives, and also to deliver a letter intrusted... | |
| William Henry Giles Kingston - 1879 - 402 str.
...What ! " exclaimed Dick, " is this the St. Ives I've heard of all my life ? " and he repeated — " As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives ; Seven wives had seven sacks, Seven sacks had seven cats, • Seven cats had seven kits, — Kits,... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 618 str.
...perhaps it is not new, we do not recollect having seen before : — " As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives ; Every wife had seven sacks ; Every sack...cats ; Every cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks, wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?" The answer is, of course, found in the first line. Rejected... | |
| 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...sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? Go to bed first, a golden purse ; Go to bed second, a golden pheasant ; Go to bed third, a golden... | |
| 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...sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? Go to bed first, a golden purse ; Go to bed second, a golden pheasant; Go to bed third, a golden... | |
| 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...cats, Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were going to St. Ives ? RELATIONSHIP. THERE were three sisters in a hall, There came... | |
| 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...seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat bad seven kittens, kittens, cata, sacks, and wives, how many men were going to St. Ives?" Before night... | |
| Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883 - 984 str.
...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 there going to St. Ives ! " — -One ; and after we had been there, we felt sure he never went again ! There were two roads,... | |
| 1923 - 978 str.
...a pail of water; Jack fell down and iroke his crown — And the audience howled with laughter. A SI was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven press agents. Each press agent had seven stories. Each story had seven columns,... | |
| 1884 - 804 str.
...Ivés I met a man with seven wives. Each wife liad seven sacks ; Ivi -I i sack had seven catR ; Each cat had seven kits ; Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,— How many were there going to St. Ivés i" — -One ; and after we had been there, we felt sure he never went again ! There were two... | |
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