"Webster, in an early edition of his dictionary, goes out of his way to abuse the creature," John William De Forest wrote in The Atlantic in 1874. The dictionary called the domestic cat "a deceitful animal," "spiteful," and tolerated only to catch mice: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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@TheAtlantic Best article the Atlantic has ever written just on the picture alone