O'Shea's Pub, Walkerston

I was there when little JoEllen, some years back, in the bar at the famous O'Sheas' pub, Walkerston, Mackay. 

Dad was proud of her ability to  say the alphabet.  

He said to her ... "Bet you can't say the alphabet backwards!"

"Bet I can." Said she, on swivelling her chair round right in front of him,

 and with her back to him

began to recite the alphabet.    Simple... That was her interpretation of backwards.