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The rhyme itself doesn't specify whether the entourage is going to or from St Ives, so the description of how many cats, wives, et al are going from St Ives is faulty. sheridan 14:44, September 10, 2005 (UTC) Besides, polygamy is not recognised in the United Kingdom, therefore six of the so-called "wives" can't really be considered wives at all.
The trick is that the listener assumes that all of the others must be totaled up, forgetting that only the narrator is said to be going to St Ives. [1] [6] If everyone mentioned in the riddle were bound for St Ives, then the number would be 2,802: the narrator, the man and his seven wives, 49 sacks, 343 cats, and 2,401 kits.
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