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