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Nursery Rhyme. CXIX. Scholastic.
by Anonymous[On arriving at the end of a book, boys have a practice of reciting the following absurd lines, which form the word finis backwards and forwards, by the initials of the words,] -
Father Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's son -
Son Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's Father.
[To get to father Johnson, therefore, was to reach the end of the book.]