St. Ives



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POEMS AND RHYMES FOR KIDS

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 sack had seven kits,–
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

From: The Real Mother Goose, 1916
(Now in the Public Domain:
not copyrighted in the United States)

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