He left the house, went down to the river and helped a little boy count the boats.
'They just don't give a monkey's.' Esme, the youngest of her three children, stoically puts up with the high boy count, although she would probably rather be doing something a little more sedate, like having a tea party with her toys.
By George Allen The New Yorker, March 16 , 1940P. 32 Like a small boy counting View Article By Jia Tolentino By Alan Burdick By John Cassidy By Atul Gawande.
Teacher Fei looked at the college students paying at the counter, the boy counting money for the proprietress and the girl scanning the restaurant, her eyes passing over Teacher Fei and his companion without seeing them.
But "It was the one thing the little boy counted on as a precious future property, and often, at all hours of the day or evening, old Tim could be seen sitting before the cabin, his arms around the boy….And sometimes, holding the banjo steady, he would invite little Tim to try his tiny hands at picking the strings" (8 ).
As for the students who rioted on behalf of the legendary head coach Joe Paterno, who got canned for turning a blind eye, well, I guess they don't think the lives of "underprivileged" boys count for much, not next to that of the winningest coach ever.
But Indian officials expressed alarm about one statistic: the ratio of young girls to young boys (counting those 6 years or younger) fell over the past 10 years, from 927 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001 to 914 per 1,000 in 2011.
If a boy could count seven with the naked eye, he would be allowed to be a brave.
When Susanna expresses sympathy for the boy, the Count tells her that Cherubino has been caught with a woman before.
For instance, a boy may count as a borderline case of 'obese' because people cannot tell whether he is obese just by looking at him.
In some families being the oldest or youngest child may be relevant, while in other families being a girl or boy may count.
