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    Buzz a Buzz or The Bees
    Buzz a Buzz or The Bees
    Buzz a Buzz or The Bees
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    Buzz a Buzz or The Bees

    By William Charles Cotton and Wilhelm Busch

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Buzz a Buzz or The Bees - William Charles Cotton

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Buzz a Buzz, by Wilhelm Busch

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Buzz a Buzz

      or The Bees

      Author: Wilhelm Busch

      Translator: William Charles Cotton

      Release Date: February 16, 2012 [EBook #38902]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUZZ A BUZZ ***

      Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      BUZZ A BUZZ

      OR THE BEES

      Buzz a Buzz

      or

      The Bees

      Done freely into

      English

      BY THE AUTHOR

      OF MY BEE BOOK

      from the German

      of

      Wilhelm Busch.

      London: GRIFFITH & FARRAN.

      Chester: PHILLIPSON & GOLDER.

      Preface.

      EXPLANATORY.

      I must say a few words in explanation of the somewhat novel form which my new Bee-Book has taken, and which, doubtless, will be a surprise to the many Bee-Friends who are waiting with exemplary patience for the second edition of my original Bee-Book, soon about to appear after an interval of thirty years from the publication of the first edition.

      I happened last year to be at the Cologne Station, waiting for the train, and employed my spare time in looking over the book stall for something to read on my way to Aix-la-Chapelle. The stall was covered with books about the late War. I had returned from a visit to the Battle Fields of 1870, and was sick of the subject. I wanted something of a more peaceful nature, and I was turning away, without making a purchase, when a book met my eye entitled Schnurrdiburr. What that might mean I knew not, but the second title, oder die Bienen, was intelligible, and had attraction enough for me. I opened it, and saw it was profusely illustrated with very comical cuts. I paid my Thaler and carried away my prize.

      The cuts are reproduced in the book which my readers have in their hands. The verses were written up to the pictures rather than translated from the German text; for alas! my German is very limited; enough for travelling purposes, but hardly enough to enable me to read a Bee-Book either serious or comical.

      RIDENTEM DICERE VERUM QUID VETAT?

      There is much truth lying hid under these comical stories; still more in the illustrations; and the notes which I have appended may be found useful even by serious Bee-Masters.

      I promise my readers that they shall have the second edition of My Bee Book as perfect as I can make it, and with as little delay as possible.

      I trust it may be much nearer perfection than the first edition, published under great difficulties, could be, and I hope it may have as many purchasers as this its forerunner.

      W. C. C.

      Frodsham, Cheshire,

      September, 1872.

      Prelude.

      Hail Muse etc.! Bring me Peggy,

      My antient steed, now somewhat leggy;

      Not him who on Parnassus green

      Erst fed, and drank of Hippocrene;

      But such, as to supply the trade,

      At Nuremburg by scores are made.—

      I mount him, and will now indite

      A Bee-book for my own delight,

      I'll sing of Johnny Dull: his pig,

      Made by his bees exceeding big;

      And of his daughter fair Christine,

      Of her queer lover Dicky Dean,

      And

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