St. Ives, Cornwall - famous rhyme, fishermenn gulls, postcard by Grapling c1930s

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• Picture / Image:  "As I was going to St. Ives..." [the famous rhyme] - with inset of gulls around fishermen in St. Ives, Cornwall
• Publisher: none stated but artist: Stanley T. Grapling?
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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"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?[1]

The earliest known published versions omit the words "a man with" immediately preceding the seven (or nine) wives, but he is present in the rhyme by 1837.[3] A modern understanding of this line suggests that polygamy was a subject of the rhyme, although as it is a nonsense verse, this detail may be nothing more than a metrical device; and simply because they were with the man, it does not necessarily follow that they were all his wives.

There were a number of places called St Ives in England when the rhyme was first published. It is generally thought that the rhyme refers to St Ives, Cornwall, when it was a busy fishing port and had many cats to stop the rats and mice destroying the fishing gear, although some people argue it was St Ives, Cambridgeshire, as this is an ancient market town and therefore an equally plausible destination.[4][5]

St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia,[1] meaning "St Ia’s cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011.[2][3][4] St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639.[5][6] St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper.[7] It should not be confused with St Ive, a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall.