Alas you sister's commission has come to the wrong place. Very willingly would I sidle up to an alligator with 'pretty! Pretty! Did he then' and so on and so on, until by gentle patronage I had obtained a good hold of the scuif of his neck.
to Dante Rossetti in response to Christina Rossetti's request of a gift of an alligator. Jerusalem, 1855.
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