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Sample ## Take a look inside E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Stephen Hope, and the publica.now Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: publica.now has the original German version of this work (Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer). See publica.now/etext/21021 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/adventuresofmaya00bons or http://www.archive.org/details/adventuresofmaya00bonsiala In the printed text, the small unframed illustrations appeared at the end of each chapter. For this e-text they have been moved to mid-chapter to separate them visually from the chapter-head illustrations. THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA THE BEE “Won’t You Come In?” THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA THE BEE BY WALDEMAR BONSELS ILLUSTRATED BY Homer Boss NEW YORK THOMAS SELTZER 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THOMAS SELTZER, INC. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The Translation of this book was made by Adele Szold Seltzer The Poems were done into English by Arthur Guiterman CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. First Flight 1 II. The House of the Rose 14 III. The Lake 25 IV. Effie and Bobbie 43 V. The Acrobat 60 VI. Puck 72 VII. In the Toils 87 VIII. The Bug and the Butterfly 104 IX. The Lost Leg 113 X. The Wonders of the Night 133 XI. With the Sprite 153 XII. Alois, Ladybird and Poet 163 XIII. The Fortress 172 XIV. The Sentinel 182 XV. The Warning 194 XVI. The Battle 204 XVII. The Queen’s Friend 218 LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS “Won’t you come in?” Frontispiece FACING PAGE Maya lifted her wings, buzzed farewell to the lake, and flew inland 42 A human being in miniature was coming up out of the iris 146 The Queen came without her court, attended only by her aide and two ladies-in-waiting 200 CHAPTER I FIRST FLIGHT The elderly lady-bee… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fthe-adventures-of-maya-the-bee) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fthe-adventures-of-maya-the-bee) No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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