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.]

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXIX. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXVIII. Scholastic.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXII. Literal

        [Finis.]

    F for fig, J for jig,
        And N for knuckle bones,
    I for John the waterman,
        And S for sack of stones.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXIX. Scholastic.

    When I was a little boy, I had but little wit
    It is some time ago, and I've no more yet;
    Nor ever ever shall, until that I die,
    For the longer I live, the more fool am I.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXIII. Scholastic.

        [The dominical letters attached to the first days of the several months are remembered by the following lines.]

    At Dover Dwells George Brown Esquire,
    Good Christopher Finch, And David Friar.

        [An ancient and graver example, fulfilling the same purpose, runs as follows.]

    Astra Dabit Dominus, Gratisque Beabit Egenos,
    Gratia Christicolæ Feret Aurea Dona Fideli.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXII. Scholastic.

        [The joke or the following consists in saying it so quick that it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish. It is remarkable that the last two lines are quoted in MS. Sloan. 4, of the fifteenth century, as printed in the 'Reliq. Antiq.,' vol. i, p. 324.]

    In fir tar is,
    In oak none is.
    In mud eel is,
    In clay none is.
    Goat eat ivy,
    Mare eat oats.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXIII. Scholastic.

    Speak when you're spoken to,
        Come when one call;
    Shut the door after you,
        And turn to the wall!

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXVIII. Scholastic.

        [A Greek bill of fare.]

    LEGOMOTON,
    Acapon,
    Alfagheuse,
    Pasti venison.

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