ould go with Nelson. After a short walk the boys reached the section
where the colored people lived and turned down a street where Nelson
said he had seen the colored boy who had taken Sunny's hat.

"There he is now!" shouted Nelson, pointing to a boy sitting on the
curbstone.

The boy heard him, looked up and started to run. Sunny Boy and Nelson
ran pell-mell after him. As the colored boy dodged round a truck in
the street the hat fell off.

"Told you we'd get it!" boasted Nelson, picking it up and holding it
triumphantly out to Sunny Boy. "That's the very one, isn't it?"

They carried it home, and Sunny Boy went to find Harriet.

"Got my hat, Harriet," he announced soberly. "Nelson helped me chase
the boy that stole it. It fell off."

"Well, you don't seem very joyful over it," commented Harriet. "Where
is it?"

Sunny Boy held out the hat silently.

It was spotted, and the brim was crushed, the ribbon band was slashed
in several places, and the crown was hopelessly faded from the sun.

"He had it on," explained Sunny Boy. "Somehow, I don't feel much like
wearing it any more."

Harriet pulled Sunny Boy down into her lap.

"For a lost hat, I'd consider that one still lost," she told him,
laughing. "That boy must have been wearing it rather steady. Don't you
care, Sunny, it isn't as if you needed it."

"No, 'tisn't as if I needed it," agreed Sunny Boy, picking up the
dilapidated hat and going off to show it to his mother. "I have my
new one. Only it's not new any more. But it looks better than this
one, I think, a whole lot."

So, like the cat, his hat came back. And now if you want to read what
happened to Sunny Boy next and what a busy time the next few weeks
were for him, you will have to read the book about him called "SUNNY
BOY IN SCHOOL AND OUT."

THE END

* * * * *

THE SUNNY BOY SERIES

By Ramy Allison White

[Illustration: SUNNY BOY ON THE OCEAN
RAMY ALLISON WHITE]

Children, meet Sunny Boy, a little fellow with big eyes and an
inquiring disposition, who finds the world a large and wonderful thing
indeed. And somehow there is lots going on, when Sunny Boy is around.
Perhaps he helps push! In the first book of this new series he has the
finest time ever, with his Grandpa out in the country. He learns a lot
and he helps a lot, in his small way. Then he has a glorious visit to
the seashore, but this is in the next story. And there are still more
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