“Just fasten your raft to my tail,” said the Alligator, “and I’ll take you there before you know that you’ve started. Only wait until I get my shade hat, as I don’t like the sun in my eyes.”
“Please don’t go too fast, Mr. Scratchetty-Claw,” said little Teenie Weenie, timidly, “or we might be upset again.”
Scratchetty-Claw promised to be very careful, and after he had tied on his shade hat, and Nibbles had fastened the raft to his tail, away they went.
The Prince’s beautiful garden was close to the river, so when Nibbles and Teenie Weenie landed, they soon found their way to his palace.
Nibbles had put the ring around his neck again for safe keeping, but when he showed it to a footman in the palace hall, he took Nibbles and Teenie Weenie at once to the Prince, who was sitting in a lovely rose arbor in the garden.
After taking off his hat, and making a low bow, Nibbles said:
“I think I have found your lordship’s ring, which you lost. I have it around my neck.”
The Prince lifted Nibbles up, and looked at the ring.
“That is most surely my Lucky Ring,” said he. “Where did you find it?”