The Adventures of Maya the Bee — Waldemar Bonsels

The eelderly lady bee who helped the ba by bee Maya when she awoke to life and slip ped from her cell was called Cassandra and com manded great respect in the hive Those were exciting days A rebellion had broken out in the nati on of bees which the queen was unable to suppress While the experienced Cassandra wiped Maya s large bright eyes and tried as best she could to arran ge her delicate wings the big hive hummed and buz zed like a threatening thunderstorm and the baby bee found it very warm and said so to her companion