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started zooming through the water and doing sort of sideways roly-polys.

    Tiffany said they looked really hungry, and then she asked me if I was any good at throwing fish.
    I said I was really good, which was a bit of a fib because I’d never thrown a fish before. I’d thrown tennis balls and frisbees in the park, and I threw a stone at school once, but I got told off for doing that.
    Anyway, I just knew I’d be really good at throwing fish.
    Then I saw Mum through the glass on the other side of the pool! And Gabby and Dylan! They were sitting in the middle of a huge crowd of people and they were waving.
    I waved back, and then my mum got her camera out to take a picture.
    The trouble with saying “cheese” when you’re about to feed the penguins is you can’t really.

    Otherwise the penguins might think you’re going to feed them cheese and not fish. Penguins don’t like cheese. It’s not fishy enough.
    The only thing that’s fishy enough for penguins is actual fish.

    The trouble with saying “fish” when you’re having your photo taken is it makes your lips look funny. Which spoils the picture.

    So I didn’t say anything. I just smiled at my mum’s camera instead. And waved.
    Then Tiffany brought me a bucket! Not a red plastic bucket like our one at home, but a proper zoo bucket made especially for penguins out of real metal.
    â€œHere you go, Daisy!” said Tiffany. “Make sure they all get their fair share!”
    Then I looked inside the bucket.
    Well, you should have seen how many fish there were inside! There were dead fish right up to the top!

Chapter 15
    At first I thought they were alive fish in the bucket, but they weren’t. They were all dead and silver with red eyes. That’s just how penguins like them.
    When I picked the first fish up, it felt a bit cold and slippery. I only picked it up by its tail. Just in case it WAS still alive. Plus I didn’t know what it would feel like.
    The trouble with dead fish is they feel a bit strange at first. Even if you only pick them up by the tail.

    The trouble with picking a dead fish up by the tail is it makes it quite hard to throw.

    My first fish didn’t go anywhere near where I meant it to, but a penguin still got it anyway. In fact, THREE penguins zoomed right after it but only one managed to get it.
    Everyone in the crowd cheered when the fish got gobbled! So next time I threw two fish at once!!
    You should have seen the penguins then! I never knew they could swim so fast. The fish were only in the water for about a second before both of them had been gobbled up!!
    Then I threw three fish at once, and they got gobbled up really quickly too!!!

    After about five throws I was putting my fingers right into the bucket, right round the dead fish and everything. Without them feeling cold or slippery at all!
    I’d really got the hang of throwing, and I was making the penguins zoom absolutely everywhere!

    The penguins must have been REALLY hungry because the more I threw, the more they dived and zoomed.

    One penguin even got out of the pool to try and steal a fish OUT OF MY BUCKET!
    Everyone laughed, and Tiffany had to shoo him straight back into the pool.
    It was soooooooo brilliant! Everyone was cheering and clapping, and there were bubbles coming out of the water, and splashes, and really fast beaks zooming everywhere.
    Plus I was a really good thrower. Just like I said I would be.
    When I did my second-best throw, it went right across into the corner of the penguin pool. But my BEST throw was SOOOO good, it went right over the pool, through the air and hit the glass on the other side, where Mum,Gabby and Dylan were sitting. Everyone really laughed and clapped then!
    Gabby and Dylan thought it was hilarious!
    My mum tried to take a picture. But she missed it.
    That’s the trouble with mums taking good pictures . They’re a bit slow.

    So then I tried to throw a fish