"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."