The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. CXIX. Scholastic.

By Unknown

[On arriving at the end of a book, boys have a practice of reciting the following absurd lines, which form the wordfinis 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.]