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[49] with sternness only; until Stephen Higginson said, “Gentlemen, if you have to live in the house with a cat, you cannot always call her cat, sometimes you must call her pussy.” Here came in the value of a sunnier clime and sunnier tempers in Philadelphia, which, whatever Horace Walpole may have thought, was destined to be, rather than Boston or New York, the pioneer in American literature, as in social refinement. It may be that Stephen Higginson, who had been for a year a member of the Continental Congress in its closing period, at Philadelphia, may have learned in the society of that city to “call pussy.”
Boston, New York and Chicago. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.
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