As I Was Going To St. Ives, I Met A Man With Seven Wives.

As I Was Going To St. Ives, I Met A Man With Seven Wives.

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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?
(One, myself)

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