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Title: The Adventures of Maya the Bee

Author: Waldemar Bonsels

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Language: English

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THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA THE BEE

[Illustration: "Won't You Come In?"]

THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA THE BEE

by

WALDEMAR BONSELS

Illustrated by Homer Boss

[Publisher's Device]

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. T