"Maybe Splash took it," suggested Sue, when she had finally gotten her dress pinned to suit her. "I saw him dragging something off to one corner a while ago."
"Was it a bone?" asked Bunny.
"I couldn't see very well, 'cause I was in a hurry," Sue answered.
"Come on—we'll find Splash!" called Bunny to Charlie and some of the others who were helping in the search.
But even the dog seemed to have hidden himself. At last, however, he was heard growling in a dark corner, and Bunny saw that his pet was chewing something, and tossing it up in the air, as he often tossed a bit of cloth or an old shoe.
"Splash! What have you got?" cried Bunny. "Bring it here!"
At first the dog did not mind, but finally, when both Sue and Bunny told him to come, out he came, dragging something after him.
"Oh, it is my red hat!" cried Charlie, when he saw it. "It's my nice red hat that mother made for me to wear in the show!"
And that is what it was. But the red hat was nice and red no longer. Splash had chewed all the red off it, and the hat was also very much out of shape.
"Splash! You're a bad dog!" cried Bunny, shaking his finger at his pet, and Splash slunk away with his tail between his legs. He always did that whenever any one called him a bad dog.