ABSTRACT
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, also known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. There were a Pomeranian puppy named Punch, a grand Irish deerhound named Wolf, a barn-owl named Jessie, another owl named Bobby, rabbits, dormice, hedgehogs, two successive wombats, a Canadian marmot or woodchuck, an ordinary marmot, armadilloes, kangaroos, wallabies, a deer, a white mouse with her brood, a racoon, squirrels, a mole, peacocks, wood-owls, Virginian owls, Chinese horned owls, a jackdaw, laughing jackasses, undulated grass-parrakeets, a talking grey parrot, a raven, chameleons, green lizards, and Japanese salamanders. No more engagingly lumpish quadruped than the first wombat could be found, and none more obese and comfortable than the woodchuck. There was one of Rossetti’s animals – a zebu, or small Brahmin bull – as to which some burlesque particulars have got into print.
