A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/As I was going to St. Ives

by Sabine Baring-Gould

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LXXXVI.

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met seven wives;
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats!
Each cat had seven kittens!
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?