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As I Was Going to St.. Ives...By Liz Piatt
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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? This has always been my favorite riddle because people invariably end up multiplying 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 - when the answer is "one.ä When ever possible I like to incorporate humor into my work - thus the man has his oldest wives beside him and as he adds more they keep getting younger. |