Truth and the Traveler
A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing
alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, Who art thou?
My name is Truth, she replied. And for what cause, he asked,
have you left the city to dwell alone here in the wilderness?
She made answer, Because in former times, falsehood was with
few, but is now with all men.
The Manslayer
A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the
man whom he murdered. On his reaching the river Nile he saw a
Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.
He found a serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again
being greatly alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a