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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Another answer is 2. "I" met the man on the road, he was also going to St Ives, and he told me of his wives, sacks, cats and kits, but they weren't with him.
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2: Two is also a plausible answer. This would involve the narrator meeting the man who is assumed to be travelling to St. Ives also, but plays on a grammatical uncertainty, since the riddle states only that the man has seven wives (and so forth), but does not explicitly mention whether the man is actually accompanied by his wives, sacks, cats, and kittens.