This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous nursery rhyme, which tells the story of a young boy who is sent away from his family by his father. The boy's father is the king of the kingdom of China. The nursery rhyme tells the tale of a boy who has been sent away by his family to be educated in a foreign country. When the boy is old enough to speak, his father tells him that he must learn to read and write. He tells the boy that he will be sent away to the country of Mongolia to