The Cat and the Youth

Name: Fantastic Fables - The Cat and the Youth
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A CAT fell in love with a handsome Young Man, and entreated Venus to change her into a woman.

"I should think," said Venus, "you might make so trifling a change without bothering me. However, be a woman."

Afterward, wishing to see if the change were complete, Venus caused a mouse to approach, whereupon the woman shrieked and made such a show of herself that the Young Man would not marry her.

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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "The Cat and the Youth," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed March 27, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52WV7Q1Q98D63UH.

MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "The Cat and the Youth." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 27 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52WV7Q1Q98D63UH.

Harvard: Bierce, A, 'The Cat and the Youth' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 27 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52WV7Q1Q98D63UH.