Throw it away;
Some other day
Your fortune may
Come past your way."
"Ha, I did not know you could make up verses," said the rabbit in surprise.
"I didn't know it, either," answered the eel. "That is the first time I have ever done such a thing," and once more he dug his tail down into the sand, real modest-like and shy.
"Well, if that is only glass, instead of a diamond, I may as well throw it away," said the rabbit.
"Yes," agreed the eel, and with a flip of his tail he sent the glass spinning out into the heaving ocean.
"More bad luck for me," thought the rabbit, but he did not give up, and, bidding good-by to the slippery eel the rabbit set off down the beach to look for his fortune once more.
By this time it had stopped raining and he didn't need the toadstool umbrella, so he stuck it up in the sand in order that the next person who came along might sit under it and get out of the sun.