...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...

...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,...

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...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...

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...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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...question, think what it might mean, consider the alternatives, as, for example, in the well-known riddle 'As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, and every sack had seven cats, every cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many...