 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
 | Percy Society - 1841 - Страниц: 468
...Bandy legs and crooked toes, I tripped up his heels and he fell on his nose. CXLVII. PEASE-porridge hot, pease -porridge cold, Pease-porridge in the pot,...Kits, cats, 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.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - Страниц: 434
...legs, Bandy legs and crooked toes, I tripped up his heels and he fell on his nose. CXLVII. CXI, VIII. [TEETH AND GUMS.] THIRTY white horses on a red hill....Kits, cats, 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.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1843 - Страниц: 332
...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... | |
 | 1846 - Страниц: 300
...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...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? CXXXIII. [THE HOLLY TREE.] HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The king... | |
 | 1846 - Страниц: 266
...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...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives ? 132. [THE HOLLY TREE.] i HIGHTY, tighty, paradighty clothed in green, The king... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - Страниц: 118
...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...Kits, cats, 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... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 396
...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 - 1850 - Страниц: 124
...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... | |
 | Johann Wilhelm Wolf - 1855 - Страниц: 918
...hang then? = fchlesw. holft. fag. f, 508 nr. 21. Simrock nr. 65. 66. 457. II nr. 52. 7. NR. CXXXII: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat bad seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were there going to St. IvesT = Simrock nr. 356.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - Страниц: 766
...substantially the old problem over again. I see no difference. A gentleman was going to St. Ives and met seven wives, every wife had seven sacks, every sack...kits : kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were going to St. Ives ? ' ' Must have been a devil of a lot of 'em,' said Uncas. ' Do you know,' said James... | |
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