 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
 | 2003 - Страниц: 268
...different from the one below that the author learned from her mother.). "As I Was Going to St. Ives" 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... | |
 | Margherita Giromini, Albertina Guglielmetti - 2003 - Страниц: 66
...nanna Rock-a-bye baby, your cradle is green, your father is rich, your mother's a queen. Indovinello 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 kittens: Kitten, cats, sacks... | |
 | Lee Blessing - 2003 - Страниц: 52
...must fear him? CORA. How can I know? MAY. The point is, how can I? (A beat.) Let's see: Where was I? "Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?" Do you know the answer? CORA. Everyone does. One. MAY. Exactly. Only / am going... | |
 | Barbara Vesey - 2003 - Страниц: 382
...castles and abbeys. Also on show are toys and models made by prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars. 'As 1 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... | |
 | Edward Duffy, Lorraine Mottershead, G. Murty - 2003 - Страниц: 556
...to St Ivés 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 to St Ivés? a How many do you think were going to St Ivés? b How many were coming back from... | |
 | Ivan Moscovich - 2004 - Страниц: 136
...Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) published the rhyme in 7202 in his Liber Abaci. The rhyme is as follows: "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?" ANSWER: PAGE 98 •4 NO EYE DEAR There was a man who didn't have eyes. He went... | |
 | Richard Powers - 2004 - Страниц: 340
...singsong nursery rhyme that, for reasons that I've long since forgotten, I'd used to open my first novel. "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives . . ." I stumbled and hung up on the lines. Harold reminded me how they went, and I got all the way... | |
 | Jr. McElfresh - 2004 - Страниц: 170
...religions may teach". John Leo, US News & World Report, 7/1/02 A child's nursery rhyme, Going to St. Ives: 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 kittens. Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
 | Margaret Y. Chu - 2004 - Страниц: 264
...Light at the End of the Tunnel? Glossary 229 References 237 Index 239 About the Author 245 Preface 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... | |
 | Mario Livio - 2005 - Страниц: 367
...millennium later still, in the eighteenth-century Mother Goose collection of nursery rhymes, we find: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits; Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Was this nursery rhyme truly inspired by the Ahmes Papyrus of more than three thousand... | |
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