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| | Poe's House Cat |
 | | She, therefore, screws her body round so as to bring her hind feet immediately beneath the latch, while she leaps with all her strength from the door-tile impetus of tile spring [forces] it open. |
 | | It well may be that Cattarina first belonged to Sissy and that she gave the cat to her husband as a gift, just as the drunkard's wife did in "The Black Cat," for the drunkard states, "We had birds, gold fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. |
 | | She has been described as tortoiseshell, which is "generally a mixture of fl and orange markings, with the orange markings showing a tabby pattern" (Jay, 134). |
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