Waiting for a train at Cologne, the English beekeeper William Charles Cotton found Busch’s picture-story of bees on a bookstall and turned it into English verse. In fyttes on bee life, a pig, rival suitors, a swarm, a patent monster hive and a honey-loving bear, the book follows a bee-keeping household through its comic misfortunes.
Busch’s anarchic humour in an affectionate Victorian translation, for fans of Max and Moritz. Download the free EPUB.