'Why do you keep playing then?' Sally asked 'if you already know who's going to win' and Daphne said 'haven't you ever played a game just for fun? Never mind, I'll tell you what, let's have another try at teaching Rainbow to walk, I'll bet you could help in that field, none of us dolphins can walk'. Sally brightened immediately, she was sure she could do well at this. 'Where is he?' she asked and Daphne told her to get on her back and she would take her to him.

Once again Sally was holding on for dear life as she was carried through the water, the dolphins continued their game on the way, jumping high out of the water and then diving deeply to get their speed up for the next jump. Eventually they got close to the shore and stopped in the shallows.

'That's Rainbow over there on the beach' said Daphne, and Sally saw him lying on the sand. She was a little surprised to find that Rainbow was a fish, and even more surprised that he had a sea gull standing on him. Teaching him to walk was not going to be as easy as she had first envisioned, he didn't even have legs. Daphne noticed the puzzled look on Sally's face and explained the situation. 'Rainbow is actually a trout, but for some reason birds think that he's a perch, so they land on him, that's why he wants to learn to walk, so that he can run away. Someone told him you have to walk before you can run, is that true do you think?'

Sally thought about this for a while and then said 'yes, I guess so, but it's not easy to walk if you don't have any feet'. Then Esmeralda said 'It sounds a bit like swimming without a tail, you flap your body about in the water but hardly move at all, like people do'. Sally had to agree, but she said 'I think I can swim better than Rainbow can walk though, don't you?' and Esmeralda said 'perhaps, but only marginally'.

'Anyway' said Daphne 'the question is, do you think that you can teach Rainbow to walk? or should we just leave him for the birds'.

Sally decided to give it a try, she felt a bit sorry for Rainbow and it wouldn't do any harm to try to help him, even if she failed. She went over to where Rainbow was lying on the beach and as she approached the bird flew off. 'Hello, Rainbow' she said 'I've come to teach you to run'.

'Oh, would you' said Rainbow, 'I'd be ever so grateful'. The dolphins all gathered around in the shallow water watching expectedly as Sally picked Rainbow up and tried to stand him up on his tail, but every time she let him go he fell over again.

So she dug a little hole in the sand and put Rainbow's tail into it, covered it up and patted the sand down until it was solid enough for him to stand upright. He was so pleased with this that he began flapping his fins about and shouting to the dolphins to look at him, and all the dolphins began to splash about in the water and whistle encouragement. Soon though, the novelty of standing up in one place wore off and Rainbow realised that he still could not run away from the birds and Sally explained that this was just the start. 'You have to learn to stand up before you can learn to walk' she said 'just as you must learn to walk before you can run'. 'I'm sure you will learn to run, Rainbow, it's not difficult, even paint can run and it doesn't have any legs.'