 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 ... - Стр. 95авторы: Percy Society - 1841Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Child - 1883 - Страниц: 330
...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...Kits, cats, 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... | |
 | Child - 1883 - Страниц: 330
...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...Kits, cats, 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... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 75
...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 - Страниц: 638
...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 - Страниц: 984
...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... | |
 | 1923 - Страниц: 978
...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,... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1884 - Страниц: 168
...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,... | |
 | 1884 - Страниц: 804
...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... | |
 | Caroline M. Churchill - 1884 - Страниц: 356
...was going to Saint Ives I met 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 to Saint Ives? I am not prepared to state whetl^er the foregoing can be classed with conundrums,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1886 - Страниц: 360
...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,...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Tves ? ccxxx. [The Holly Tree.] HiGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The king... | |
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