Father Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's son
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. To get to father Johnson, therefore, was to reach the end of the book.
“Father Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's son—
Son Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's Father.”
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