"Is that so?" said Buster. "I suppose if Buster Bumblebee were at this party you'd be glad to talk with him?"
"I should say I would!" was the other's answer. "He's my cousin."
"What's your name, anyhow?" Buster Inquired.
"Joseph Bumble!"
"What's the rest of it?" Buster Bum[p. 81]blebee demanded, while the whole company surged around him, so that they might hear.
"I refuse to answer!" said Joseph Bumble. And afterward Daddy Longlegs declared that at that moment he saw the fellow's knees trembling.
"Come!" said Joseph Bumble, turning suddenly to Betsy Butterfly. "I see that we've accidentally fallen in with some rough people; and we'd better be moving on."
But Betsy Butterfly didn't even look at Joseph.
"What is his full name?" she asked Buster.
"He's a Bumble Flower-Beetle," Buster said. "And as for his being related to me, that's all humbug. This stranger is no kin either to the Bumblebee or any other Bee family. But his voice is so much like[p. 82] ours that he's taken part of our name, though our family has always claimed that he has no right to it."