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right out of the zoo! But I only had three fish left in my bucket, and they werereally slippery ones. Plus one didn’t have a head. So they only went as far as the middle.
    But Mum still took a picture. And everyone still clapped! And the penguins kept diving and zooming around.
    Then my bucket ran out.
    The trouble with buckets running out is you don’t have any fish left to throw.

    Which isn’t very good, because the penguins still looked really hungry.
    So I threw the bucket into the penguin pool too.
    I didn’t actually mean to throw the bucket in – it just sort of came out of my hands. I wasn’t trying to throw it in on purpose or anything. I just thought there might be some fish juice left in the bottom and the penguins might like to lick it out.
    Penguins love fish juice.
    The trouble with zoo buckets is that they sink. Because they’re metal.

    Plus if they land on a penguin, they can give it a really big bump on the head.
    Luckily all the penguins dived out of the way, but the zoo bucket sank right to the bottom of the water.
    At first everyone laughed and cheered. Except my mum. Mum covered her eyes and went red, but most people thought it was funny. Gabby and Dylan thought it was hilaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarious!
    I’m not sure if Tiffany did, though. She sort of smiled and sort of frowned at the same time. And then she had to go and get a long zoo net.
    The trouble with zoo nets is they’re not very good at picking up buckets.

    Which meant Tiffany had to spend quite a long time trying to get the bucket out. I asked her if she wanted me to have a go, but she said it would be better if I left it to her.
    So I did.
    It would definitely have been better if she had let me have a go with the net, because I’m really expert at that too.
    In Cornwall when I was on holiday, Mum bought me a net. When I put it in the rock pool, I caught loads of sand, two shells and a lolly stick on my very first go! I nearly caught some weed too, but it escaped when I lifted the net up.
    Tiffany took loads of goes before she even caught anything.
    By the time she’d put the bucket back in the penguin cupboard and taken me back to Mum, Dylan and Gabby, most of the people behind the glass had gone. Mum said the elephants were being fed at 2:30 and everyone had probably gone to see them.
    Plus she said sorry to Tiffany.
    Tiffany said it was OK and she hoped I’d had a good time.
    I said I’d had a REALLY good time. Tiffany said I was SO good at throwing fish I’d be after her job one day. Then she asked me if I would like her job one day?
    I said yes, but actually I fibbed, because I wouldn’t want to do a job with a brown shirt. I wouldn’t mind the badge though.
    Except I think I’d want a growling lion on my badge. Not a paw print.
    Then we waved goodbye to the penguins.

Chapter 16
    On the way back from the penguin house, Gabby couldn’t stop giggling. Dylan thought it was really funny too.
    â€œWhat if you’d hit a penguin on the head?” laughed Dylan.
    â€œWhat if a penguin had thought the bucket was a fish? And swallowed it!” laughed Gabby.
    That’s the trouble with Gabby .

    She might have had Wellingtons on, but she’s not the slightest bit expert about penguins.
    Then Mum asked us where we’d like to go next.
    So I said, “Home.”
    â€œHOME?” said Mum. “Surely you don’t want to go home yet! We haven’t seen the crocodiles, or the tigers or the vultures or the mongooses.”
    So I told her I was really tired.
    â€œYou’re not worried about the bucket are you, Daisy?” she said.
    â€œYou really shouldn’t be worried about the bucket.”
    So I told her that the trouble with doing really good throws is it can really make your arms ache, and that I REALLY wanted to go home.

    â€œREALLY?” she said.
    â€œREALLY, REALLY,” I said.
    â€œBut we haven’t even seen the giraffes