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.]