As I was going to St Ives

"As I was going to St Ives" (Roud 19772) is a traditional English-language nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle. The most common modern version is: 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 there going to St Ives?

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