AS I WAS GOING TO ST. IVES…
theenglishteacher on January 8th, 2009
This fascinated me when I was a child…
The St. Ives Riddle
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 wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Image courtesy of Stevyn Colgan
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