1, or No, 2, or Wait, 3, or....

As long-time readers know, self-referential conundrums are among my favorites, and recently CSE blog cited an old one from Martin Gardner:

The number of 1′s in this paragraph is ___; the number of 2′s is ___; the number of 3′s is ____; and the number of 4′s is ___.

And more general bonus follow-up:

The number of 1′s in this paragraph is ___; the number of 2′s is ___; ….(and so on) and the number of N’s is ___.

Happy paragraph parsing! Answers supplied here:

http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/04/hr-cardcolm/