Riddle Keeper

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, this is the world’s oldest riddle:

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
And every sack had seven cats.
Every cat had seven kits.
Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

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