"Don't feel as if I cared to tell any lies about it, and I don't advise your goin'; but if you're mad for catamounts, I s'pose I must humor you and say nothing.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
Guess you've had enough of catamounts for one spell, hey?"
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
The ladies were not able to make much of her from the first; but some of them asked her if it were not rather lonely there, and she said that when you heard the catamounts scream at night, and the bears growl in the spring, it did seem lonesome.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009