Nursery Rhyme. Cxix. Scholastic

[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.]