FAMILY NAMES 
25 
“But, now, what is the question 
that you wish to ask, Miss Bee? 
If I cannot answer it I will tell you 
so frankly, and then we will both 
try to discover it from some source. 
For, you know, there is a way of 
finding out almost everything, if we 
only know where to look for it.” 
“This is what puzzles me: why 
should we bear the same name when 
we have nothing in common but our 
wings?” 
“If that statement were true, then 
there would indeed be good cause for 
your question. But it is not true. 
On the contrary, we have many 
things in common.” 
“Tell us about them,” the others 
begged. 
