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.
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 ).
True, Paulie was wound a bit tightly, but the boys could count on him.
"We ask the boys to count up what they do, and what the girls do, and ask what that means in terms of relationships and equality".
Nor, Chusid argues, does it quite include an out-there genius like Brian Wilson, who -- despite living in his bedroom for 10 years and battling countless demons -- simply had too much commercial success with the Beach Boys to count.
I even made up a game with my boys to count the number of people wearing Brazilian jerseys, while in a taxi to a destination 30 minutes away, we had to give up 10 minutes into it, because we got tired of counting so many jerseys.
