From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.

From Phonic Primer, 1918.

From The Film Daily, 1942.

You may have had a sense that everything counts toward something.  But it only counts toward twenty.  [The context is twenty years of service before retirement from the armed forces.]  From It All Counts Toward Twenty by Everett Christensen.

Our wizardly friend Gordon once had eleven fingers in a nightmare.  When he woke up and starting counting to reassure himself, his studies in arcane arithmetic came back to haunt him, as the math kept coming to "eleven."  When we encountered the strange hand in this ad from the University of the South's 1971 yearbook, we wondered how Gordon would fill in the circle over the thumb.