Truth and the Traveller

Name: Fantastic Fables - Truth and the Traveller
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A MAN travelling in a desert met a Woman.

"Who art thou?" asked the Man, "and why dost thou dwell in this dreadful place?"

"My name," replied the Woman, "is Truth; and I live in the desert in order to be near my worshippers when they are driven from among their fellows. They all come, sooner or later."

"Well," said the Man, looking about, "the country doesn’t seem to be very thickly settled here."

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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "Truth and the Traveller," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed July 11, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D1MKRSGSURQER82.

MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "Truth and the Traveller." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 11 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D1MKRSGSURQER82.

Harvard: Bierce, A, 'Truth and the Traveller' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D1MKRSGSURQER82.