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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