Bunny handed over the lobster claw, but it dropped to the barn floor, and before either he or Charlie could pick it up, some one had stepped on it.
"Crack!" it went, for it was made of thin shell, not very strong. And there it lay in pieces on the floor.
"Oh, dear," cried Charlie. "I've broken your nose, Bunny!"
"Well, I'm glad it wasn't my real one," and Bunny put his hand up to his face, while Charlie stooped over to pick up the pieces of the lobster claw, hoping there was enough left to make a little nose for the next time.
And then suddenly Bunny, who was watching Charlie, gave a cry, and reached for something that glittered among the pieces of the red lobster claw.
"Oh, look! look!" fairly shouted the little fellow. "It's Aunt Lu's diamond ring. It was in the lobster claw, and it came out when the claw broke. Oh, Aunt Lu! I've found your diamond ring!"
Aunt Lu fairly rushed over to Bunny. She took from his hand the shiny, glittering thing he had picked up from the barn floor.
"Yes, it IS my lost diamond ring!" she cried. "Oh, where was it?"
"Down inside the lobster claw, that I had on my nose," Bunny said. "Only
I didn't know it was there."
"And no one would have known it if it had not broken," said Mrs. Brown.
"How lucky to have found it."