Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — Artist’s Strange Pets. [ARTICLE]

Artist’s Strange Pets.

'Rossetti’s garden at Queen’s Cheyne Walk, London, harbored some strange pets during the poet-painter’s tenancy. Among these was a white bull bought, as one of his friends relates, because it had eyes! like Mrs. William Morris. “Rossetti tethered it on the lawn of his home in Chelsea. Soon there was no lawn left—only tile bulL He invited people to meet it, and heaped favors on It until it kicked everything to pieces, when he reluctantly got rid of it.” Subsequently denizens of the Cheyne Walk garden included vombats, white peacocks and armadillos. f