[Ads-l] (Maine) coon cat

[Jonathan Lighter]

Amazingly absent from OED.

1877 _Daily Eastern Argus_ (Portland, Me.) (Oct. 31) 3: FREE EXHIBITIONS of
Photographs, Live Birds, Coon Cats, and other "Curiosities."

1878 _Evening Bulletin_ (Providence, R.I.) (Jan. 29) 4: A manx cat wins a
look, and so does a stately tiger cat...from an engine house at Pawtucket.
Last in the row is a coon cat, a funny specimen, having the ways and some
of the looks of both cat and raccoon.

1883 _Nashville Banner_ (Oct. 30) 3: The Maine wild coon cat was expressed
from Bangor yesterday, and is expected at the show to-day.

JL

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