Next Sally told Rainbow to try to balance himself by waving his fins about, and she demonstrated with her arms. After trying and falling over half a dozen times Rainbow managed to stand up on his own for a few minutes, which caused the dolphins to splash about and whistle again.

Then Sally told him to stand on one tail fin and move the other one forward, then to stand on the other tail fin and move the first one forward. When he had managed that a few times Sally told him that he was walking and he was delighted with his progress. Sally had to struggle to keep from laughing though, because Rainbow sort of waddled, not unlike a penguin, but a lot less co-ordinated. She told him to practice what he was doing and eventually he would get better and better at it and faster and faster and then we would be running. 'After all' she said 'running is just walking fast'.

Rainbow was delighted and couldn't stop thanking Sally. He said his life had been turned around and he waddled around the beach singing:

Then, with the dolphins splashing about and whistling, he thanked Sally once more and waddled down to the sea and they all swam away.

Sally felt very satisfied about the way it had all turned out, she enjoyed helping others and she realised that Rainbow could now walk as well as Sally could swim, which wasn't really very well, but at least he was pleased. She couldn't help wondering what he was doing on the beach in the first place, and why he didn't just stay in the sea like all the other fish, then he wouldn't have this problem.

She felt a little lonely now that the dolphins had gone, and she lay down on the beach in the sun and contemplated the events of the day.

Sally drifted off to sleep.