The Yak

 

The Yak

As a friend to the children commend me the Yak.

  You will find it exactly the thing:

It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back,

  Or lead it about with a string.

 

The Tartar who dwells on the plains of Thibet

  (A desolate region of snow)

Has for centuries made it a nursery pet,

  And surely the Tartar should know!

 

Then tell your papa where the Yak can be got

  And if he is awfully rich

He will buy you the Creature--or else he will not.

  (I cannot be positive which.)

 

-Hilaire Belloc

 

This is from Hilaire Belloc's The Bad Child's Book of Beasts of 1896.  

 

Off travelling and this was scheduled in advance. Not in Thibet...