'Twas a
wonderful sight!
"Nay, hear me further," as Cunora threw herself, with a grunt of
impatience, back on her bed; "there is a greater wonder to tell.
"Holding this big blooming stick in one hand, he gave me his other;
and it seemed as though I floated through the air by his side.
Presently we came to the place where Corrus's herd lay sleeping. The
angel smote one of the cows with the flat of his hand, so that it
got upon its feet; and straighway the stranger thrust the flowing
blossom into its face.
"The cow shrank back, Cunora! 'Twas deadly afraid of that beautiful
flower!"
"That is odd," admitted Cunora. She was getting interested.
"Then he took me by the hand again, and we floated once more through
the air. In a short time we arrived at the city of the masters.
[Footnote: "Having no microscopes, the Sanusians could not know that
the soldier bees were unsexed females; hence, "masters."] Before I
knew it, he had me standing before the door of one of their palaces.
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