 The remaining Bone cousins go through the town; but Phoney decides to stop in the marketplace to see what the locals are using for currency.In the Atheian marketplace, Phoney and Fone Bone fight with a ferocious giant bee, and the merchants thank the Bones for chasing the bee off, explaining that he and other bees terrorize the marketplace (in anger at the merchants for selling water rations to the bees at inflated prices).They offer the Bones gold to keep the bees away.